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We employ the “social conditions of innovative enterprise” framework to analyze the key determinants of China’s development path from the economic reforms of 1978 to the present. First, we focus on how government investments in human capabilities and physical infrastructure provided...
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Why are we rich and others poor? What is preventing the less-developed countries from catching up with the more developed? How did we become rich? Underlying these questions are more fundamental ones: What is the nature of economic progress? What are its causes? I seek the answers to these...
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Using data from 6378 Mexican firms for the 2012–2013 period, this paper estimates the effect of competition with China for the US market on the innovation efforts of the Mexican manufacturing sector. After controlling for the influence of several variables, we find a U-curve shaped...
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Key Features:Analyses China's policies in its shift towards science and technologyDiscusses the impact of the policies and the challenges ahead for ChinaProvides interesting case studies of semiconductor and online news industriesAdopts a balanced and objective approach to a topic in which...
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Powerful technological platforms — artificial intelligence, gene editing, robotics — are driving a new wave of global innovation, with China and the United States emerging as the “G2” in these and other areas of technology. The United States is ahead overall, but its technology...
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In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U ….S. economy during the last 40 years. In this paper, we replicate their findings for China and Germany, using detailed firm …
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agglomeration and congestion. The main finding is that the negative effect of congestion on productivity is highly likely to … outweigh the positive productivity effect of agglomeration economies within the STIPs but not among high-tech firms outside the … STIPs. The paper also finds that the productivity of high-tech firms, whether within or outside the STIPs, are positively …
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