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Development of capital-goods sector: experience of pre-prc China.
S, Ishikawa - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1984
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the historical development of the capital goods machinery industry in China - covers the period from 1930s to 1950s describing development from repair shops and maintenance in foreign owned shops to machinery manufacturing using intermediate technology;...
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Relations professionnelles et volontarisme: hong-kong dans le dilemme.
SH, Ng - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1982
ILO pub. Article on voluntarist labour relations trends and issues in Hong Kong - provides comparisons with the system in the UK, discusses the historical background, labour legislation enactments since 1968, impact on collective bargaining and trade union membership, etc., and suggests a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690134
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The Chinese and opium under the Republic : worse than floods and wild beasts
Baumler, Alan - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004948918
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Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants' Cultures of Innovation
Kohnert, Dirk - 2010
The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from established African entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive sociocultural traits or whether the Chinese's supposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293531
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Workshop series on the role of institutions in East Asian development: Institutional foundations of innovation and competitiveness in East Asia
Pascha, Werner (contributor); Storz, Cornelia (contributor);  … - 2007
The discussion paper summarizes the results of a workshop that focussed on the institutional foundations of innovation … in China's Business System', 'Recent Changes to Korea's Innovation Governance', 'Standardization and Institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302335
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Do active innovation policies matter? Findings from a survey on the Hong Kong electronics SMEs
Liu, Wan-Hsin - 2008
an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating … new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D centres to facilitate information flow and innovation cooperation … electronics SMEs, whether these policies have positively affected innovation intensity in HK. The survey findings indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263517
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Financial development and innovation in China: Evidence from the provincial data
Hanley, Aoife; Liu, Wan-Hsin; Vaona, Andrea - 2011
This paper investigates the role of regional financial development, in addition to FDI, for regional innovation in … regional innovation (patenting) performance. This positive effect is found to be higher for minor innovations such as external … would otherwise impede regional innovation performance. …
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Understanding innovation in production networks in East Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2013
This paper explores the "black box" of innovation in the electronics production network in East Asia through a mapping … ownership and innovation in increasing the probability of exporting in electronics. Higher levels of skills, managers' education … innovation than the research and development (R&D) to sales ratio. Accordingly, technological effort in electronics in these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397223
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Do exporting firms in the People's Republic of China innovate?
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2012
innovation was important, there has been little research on opening up the black box of technology at firm-level in the PRC. This … paper undertakes econometric analysis of innovation, learning, and exporting in automobiles and electronics firms in the PRC … using a large-scale dataset to identify the most appropriate innovation proxy. Drawing on recent literature on innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397326
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China's regional inequality in innovation capability, 1995 - 2004
Fan, Peilei; Wan, Guanghua - 2006
Relying on a recently developed decomposition framework, this paper explores spatial distribution of innovation … capability in China. It is found that at the regional level, China's inequality in innovation capability increased from 1995 to … inequality in innovation capability. Unbalanced development in high-tech parks exerts a growing explanatory power in driving …
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