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Geographic scale has been central to the debate on studies on technological innovation. Through a brief examination of China's science and technology history since the 1950s, this study suggests that the role of the state is crucial for understanding the structuring, restructuring and...
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This study uses a variety of indicators such as patent grants, new product sales, and R&D spending to examine the spatial patterns of industrial innovation in China during the 1990s. It is found that industrial innovation in China has been concentrated in the coastal areas, and the spatial...
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Along just a few decades, China has undergone huge economic changes, managing an impressive catching-up drive. But although its past accomplishments are undeniably outstanding in terms of extensive development, the country has also accumulated multiple distortions and structural imbalances and...
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strikingly divergent. Japanese involvement in Internet standardization began early and Japan was, for many years, second only to … the U.S. in terms of IETF participation. Though Japanese participation has declined since the early 2000s, Japan remains a … Japan and major European countries. Korean participation in IETF has also declined over the past decade, and has been …
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China's proclaimed aim of becoming the world's leader in science, technology and innovation by the mid twenty first century has triggered an intense competition with the United States. The latter, feeling threatened in its supremacy in this field, has reacted forcefully. This GLO Discussion...
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We investigate the role of public funding in the rapid ascent of Chinese science by examining the impact of a major upgrade of a funding program of China's National Natural Science Foundation in 2011. Using research grant level data and a difference-in-differences estimator, we found that the...
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The new economic geography has increased attention on the spatial dimension of knowledge spillovers and innovation. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that regional knowledge spillovers positively influence China's innovation growth from 2001 to 2008. As knowledge is subjected to spatial...
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This paper investigates whether proximity to universities matters for corporate patenting in Chinese provinces. The investigation is based on estimating regional knowledge production functions using a Chinese provincial dataset for the years from 2000 to 2008. Geographic proximity of companies...
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The rapid growth of Chinese economy in the last two decades is an essential result of an effective state policy for its transformation into an open and market form. Similar changes took place in innovation system. The emphasis is placed on the cooperation of science and business, the...
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China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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