The scale of China's innovation ambitions inspires worldwide commentary, much of it poorly informed. Focusing on … electricity, telecommunication and semiconductors, this book offers a richly detailed account of China's innovation efforts … global developments into the appraisal of China's innovation achievements. …

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: How to Move Innovation intothe Economy -- 2 What … Happened to Manufacturing? -- 3 Scaling Up Start-Ups to Market -- 4 Main Street Manufacturers and Innovation -- 5 Lessons in … Training -- 8 Building New Pathways from Innovation to the Market -- Notes -- Index. …

context of the national record-breaking activities in high tech innovation, there lies distinct and growing geographical … disparities. This report dives into strategies for better understanding innovation that occurs in rural places, and places outside … regional development initiatives aimed at closing the gaps in innovation between rural and urban areas. The report includes a …

analyzed five different measures of process innovation output: cost reductions, defect rate reductions, reductions in … of process innovation and that smaller firms are more likely to introduce new processes and are better able to transform … them into higher output. All five process innovation outputs are associated with higher labor productivity and higher sales …

Aghion, Van Reenen and Zingales (2013) find that institutional ownership causes an increase in innovation as measured … ownership and innovation is robust in 22% of robustness checks. On average, 2nd stage z-scores were just 42.7% of the original …