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Innovations, Intellectual Property Protection, and Financial Markets : Evidence from China
Hsu, Po-Hsuan - 2014
This study explores the interaction between innovations and financial markets using data of China that present significant geographic variations in development. Provincial banking development encourages local innovations, and provincial intellectual property (IP) protection raises the market...
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Inequality and Regional Productivity Convergence in China
Deng, Paul Duo - 2013
This paper compares China's labor productivity growth across different regions and industries, and investigates how the initial productivity gaps with the international frontier affect their subsequent productivity growth. Using data aggregated from the firm level, the research yields...
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Explaining Spatial Convergence of China’s Industrial Productivity
Deng, Paul; Jefferson, Gary - Department of Economics, International Business School, … - 2011
This paper investigates the conditions that may auger a reversal of China’s increasingly unequal levels of regional industrial productivity during China’s first two decades of economic reform. Using international and Chinese firm and industry data over the period 1995-2004, we estimate a...
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Effects of knowledge capital on total factor productivity in China: A spatial econometric perspective
Scherngell, Thomas; Borowiecki, Martin; Hu, Yuanjia - In: China Economic Review 29 (2014) C, pp. 82-94
The transformation of China into a knowledge based economy is one of the most intensively debated research issues in Economic Geography. The focus of this study is on effects of knowledge capital on manufacturing total factor productivity (TFP) in China through the lens of the regional knowledge...
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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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Innovation and firm performance in the People's Republic of China : a structural approach with spillovers
Howell, Anthony - 2017
This paper adopts a structural framework to study the process of indigenous innovation and its impact on firm … almost 70,000 private Chinese firms operating in the PRC from 2004 to 2007. Relying on a structural innovation framework, the …'s decision to innovate; (ii) the innovation effort; (iii) the innovation throughput; and (iv) the firm performance. The results …
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The anatomy of Chinese innovation : insights on patent quality and ownership
Boeing, Philipp; Brandt, Loren; Dai, Ruochen; Lim, Kevin; … - 2024
We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance based on patent abstracts and classify patent ownership using a comprehensive business registry. We highlight four insights. First, average patent importance declined from...
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Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (scientific) giants? : evidence from chemistry
Qiu, Shumin; Steinwender, Claudia; Azoulay, Pierre - 2023
In recent decades, Chinese researchers have become preeminent contributors to the scientific enterprise, as reflected by the number of publications originating from Chinese research institutions. China's rise in science has the potential to push forward the global frontier, but mere production...
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The anatomy of Chinese innovation : insights on patent quality and ownership
Boeing, Philipp; Brandt, Loren; Dai, Ruochen; Lim, Kevin; … - 2024
We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance based on patent abstracts and classify patent ownership using a comprehensive business registry. We highlight four insights. First, average patent importance declined from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502754
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Innovation, wages, and polarization in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Su, Yaqin; Min … - 2018
Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is consistent with the automation of routine noncognitive tasks in the skilled sector as analyzed in...
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