1. Introduction / Franco Malerba, Sunil Mani and Pamela Adams -- 2. The rise to market leadership of Chinese leading automotive firms : a case of Geely Group from the sectoral innovation system perspective -- Bin Guo, Xiaoling Chen and Qiang Li -- 3. The Leading Chinese firms in the...

This paper empirically investigates how the inter-sectoral knowledge flows affect the international competitiveness of industries, once controlling for both cost and other technological factors. Using patent data on 14 manufacturing industries in 16 OECD countries over the period 1995-2009, we...