in a “middle-income trap”. China recognizes that it must dramatically increase its capacity for innovation to avoid this … the diverse resources available to it for creating an innovation-based economy. It describes how China has over the past …, optimistic scenario argues that China can build ever-stronger innovation capability and become a high-income nation. The second …

with R&D resources to incremental and radical innovation. The analysis of a panel dataset of 1381 Chinese manufacturing … firms in the period 2008–2014 shows that imitation strategy is positively related to incremental innovation but has an … inverted U-shaped relationship with radical innovation. More interestingly, R&D resources serve as a critical boundary …

In the last two decades, the world has witnessed the rise of Chinese innovation. China, once a manufacturing hub for … information. The aggregate data show that over time Chinese firms have gained leadership over foreign firms in China both in terms … for innovation. Our findings suggest that imitation is a path to indigenous innovation only in low-tech (simple …

SBR-based lobbying and how they could influence innovation. The paper starts with a theoretical discussion on the … government decision to adopt either a strategy fostering technology imitation/transfer or one fostering innovation … in technological capabilities and innovation, yet still lagging behind internationally, with much room for improvement …