An increasing number of studies are using either worldwide Chinese patent applications as an indicator to assess the country's international competitiveness or applications at the Chinese SIPO as an indicator of the internal structure of innovative activities on its domestic market. Whenever...

This detailed book explores and provides insights into the development and transformation of various clusters, economies and industrial sectors in East and Southeast Asia.

It is widely believed that universities exert notable effects on their regional socio-economic environment. So far, much of the empirical evidence supporting this claim is based on case studies. While such studies often give a detailed picture of the contributions of individual universities for...

This paper analyses the factual effects of new public management governance on academics' job choice. Based on a large-scale choice experiment carried out with faculty from Germany's nine leading technical universities, we find that working environments characterised by levels of administrative...

In a dynamic geopolitical environment, policy makers need additional types of information when selecting technological domains for specific support. While all such selections eventually become political, they need to remain evidence-based to shield them against capture. This paper argues that...