firm innovation. To do so, we create a panel dataset by matching official China Top Brand Award recipients to the … innovation outputs of listed companies. Results from difference-in-differences estimates show that firms that received the China … the China Top Brand Award on innovation outputs operate through higher government subsidies to winning firms. We also find …

constraints or the promotion of follow-on innovation. …

Asia, have engaged in improving their innovation capability in the economic transition. First, I measured and compared … innovation capability of both countries by using not only various input and output indicators of innovation systems but also the … how both countries developed their innovation capabilities by focusing on their transformation of the national innovation …

improved their innovation capability during economic transition. First, we measure and compare innovation capability of both … countries by using not only various input and output indicators of innovation systems but also the contribution of technological … developed their innovation capabilities by focusing on the transformation of their national innovation systems since the …

industrial development in China. Third, we provide evidence on achievements in indigenous innovation—by which we mean …, we sketch out the implications of our approach for current debates on the role of innovation in China’s development path …

Innovation depends on exporting and, in particular, on scale and competition in export markets. We develop a theory … featuring (1) quality-segmented markets, (2) step-by-step innovation that moves firms forward along the quality ladder, and (3 …) escape-the-competition motives for innovation. We derive four predictions about the impact on innovation of scale and …