Scale-up Nation: China’s Specialization in Innovative Manufacturing

Jonas Nahm and Edward S. Steinfeld

World Development, 2014, vol. 54, issue C, 288-300

Abstract: On the basis of more than one hundred interviews conducted in 42 firms in China’s wind turbine and solar PV sectors during 2010–2013, this article seeks to specify the nature and extent of China-based technology innovation. We argue that Chinese firms have developed unique capabilities surrounding technology commercialization and manufacturing-related innovation. We provide a taxonomy for understanding such capabilities, showing the ways in which they are related to multidirectional, cross-border learning among firms. Our analysis points the way toward new frameworks for understanding national competitiveness and industrial upgrading.

Keywords: manufacturing innovation; industrial upgrading; national competitiveness; renewable energy industries; Asia; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.09.003

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