Domestic Innovation and Chinese Regional Growth, 1991-2004

Domestic Innovation and Chinese Regional Growth, 1991-2004

The roles of universities in Chinese regional innovation systems

This paper is aimed to understand the role of universities in regional innovation systems in China. It particularly examines how the Chinese practices concerning the universities' engagement with the society for promoting regional innovation systems are different from the western experiences which has been often understood within the Triple Helix framework (Etzkowitz & Leydesdorff, 1995, 1997)....

Regional Industrial Growth Evidence from Chinese Industries

This paper examines several theories of regional industrial development in the case of China. It studies regional factors representing three broadly defined sources of regional growth: dynamic externalities arising from knowledge spillovers, natural advantage and local market conditions, and foreign trade and direct investment. Using provincial-level data on two-digit Chinese Industrial Classif...

R&D Centre Growth Based on Regional Innovation System

Since 1990s, overseas research and development (R&D) of multinational enterprises (MNEs) is speedily developing and growing. The objective that MNEs establish local R&D organizations or cooperate R&D with local enterprises is to effectively utilize local science and technology resource or to support the production and marketing of local subsidiary companies under the background of global compet...

Clusters, Innovation and Regional Development

This paper provides a critical examination of the widely disseminated view that innovation in all or most activities is favoured by certain common characteristics in the local ‘milieu’, involving a cluster of many small firms benefiting from flexible inter-firm alliances, supported by mutual information exchanges of both an informal and formal nature. The general applicability of this model, an...