China has now moved considerably away from being an imitative latecomer to technology toward to being an innovation … Innovation because the process of learning the tacit knowledge required in using the foreign technology fully is made easier by … technology transfer and investment in indigenous innovation should go hand in hand. Without the numerous well-funded programs to …

compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …

trend (purely external non-economic) as well as other exogenous (external economic) factors (technology shifters). We define … technology index based on the external economic factors which are indicators of ‘technology’. Thus our definition of production … function is amended to accommodate several technology shifters which are not separable from the traditional inputs. That is …