This study examines the issue of high-quality labor in rural enterprises of China. It develops a spatial strategy and the strategy consists of two dimensions: geographical space and administrative space. Different combinations of these two dimensions form a variety of approaches such as local...

This study examines foreign R&D in Shanghai and reveals that Shanghai has become one of the most concentrated centers of foreign R&D in China. Through interviews of 18 foreign R&D facilities in Shanghai, the study confirms the findings from previous studies that the majority of foreign R&D in...

This study examines the relationship between technological innovation and export, using data obtained through surveys of enterprises in three counties of Jiangsu, China. It reveals that most rural enterprises in Jiangsu are oriented toward China's domestic market and there exists significant...

This paper investigates the innovative behavior of large and medium manufacturing enterprises in China. It reveals that in-house R&D efforts rather than imported technologies are the primary sources of industrial innovations in China. Regarding in-house R&D efforts, it is found that in-house R&D...

This paper examines the challenges of foreign R&D in China, based on interviews with 32 senior R&D managers. It confirms the findings from previous studies that many barriers still exist in China for foreign R&D, and such barriers include institutional environment, infrastructure and labor...

It is found that patents in China are highly clustered in two groups of provinces: one is the economically fast growing coastal provinces, and the other is inland provinces with large bases of populations, while degree of spatial concentration of patents is declining over time. It is also...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) can benefit innovation activity in the host country via spillover channels such as reverse engineering, skilled labor turnovers, demonstration effects, and supplier-customer relationships. Using provincial data from 1995 to 2000, we find positive effects of FDI on...

This paper argues that technical change in the East Asian countries was sector-specific, took the form of learning-by-doing and was induced by relative factor prices. Usual growth accounting exercises do not account for this in the structure of the assumed aggregate production function and...

Innovations are a key driver of long-term economic growth. There has been an explosion of patent filings in China in the past three decades. But empirical studies on the pattern of innovations at the firm level are rather scant primarily due to lack of firm-specific patent data. We have made...