Ownership, R&D and productivity change: assessing the catch-up in China’s high-tech industries

J. Yu and Peter Nijkamp
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J. Yu: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Econometrie (Free University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics Sciences, Business Administration and Economitrics

No 10, Serie Research Memoranda from VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics

Abstract: This study contributes to the debate on whether China’s domestic enterprises (DEs) have experienced a significant catch-up compared with foreign-funded enterprises (FFEs) in high-tech industries. Our paper tries to estimate a new set of capital stock and R&D capital stock by ownership for China’s high-tech industries. Then, using this newly constructed data set, it assesses the comparative productivity performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) (as the most important proxy for DEs) in high-tech industries from 1996 to 2006. The results show that SOEs as a whole have experienced an inverted U-shape trajectory of catch-up for 1996-2006, while those SOEs which originate from competitive industries tend to show a better performance. With respect to the technology catch-up, SOEs in particular are still lagging behind because of their failure to develop indigenous technology capabilities.

Keywords: Productivity; R&D; Catch-up; Indigenous technology capability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E22 L63 O47 P27 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cna, nep-eff, nep-ino and nep-tra
Date: 2008
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