 Sources of Innovation in China's Manufacturing Sector: Imported or Developed in-House?Yifei Sun
Environment and Planning A, 2002, vol. 34, issue 6, 1059-1072 Abstract: The author investigates the innovative behavior of large and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in China. It is revealed that in-house research and development (R&D) efforts, rather than imported technologies, are the primary sources of industrial innovation in China. Regarding in-house R&D efforts, it is found that in-house R&D laboratories are important sources for the creation of new products as measured by patents, though it is enterprise-wide R&D spending rather than the mere presence of in-house facilities that is more likely to lead to market success. Concerning importation of technologies, it is revealed that the limited nature of efforts to absorb imported technologies has become a serious barrier to fulfilling the potential of these technologies and to upgrading China's internal creative capabilities. In addition, domestic technology markets have not been effectively linked to large and medium-sized industrial enterprises, despite China's enduring efforts in this direction since the middle 1980s. It is therefore concluded that the organization of R&D activities in China's industrial enterprises is still fragmented, with only weak linkages between technology importation and assimilation, between industrial R&D and domestic technology markets, and between business and R&D activities within enterprises. Date: 2002 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:envira:v:34:y:2002:i:6:p:1059-1072 DOI: 10.1068/a34107 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Environment and Planning A |
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