Wu, Min; Liu, Chong; Huang, Jiuli - In: China economic quarterly international : CEQI 1 (2021) 4, pp. 319-330
We examine the impact of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) on innovation using China's county-level data from 1985 to 2011 …. Results show that the establishment of SEZs promotes a county's innovation in terms of application, grant and citation numbers … effect on innovation. Counties with universities nearby apply for more patents. The SEZs not only promote innovation in …