Catching up or lagging behind? Assessment of technological capacity of China by patent database

Kazuyuki Motohashi

China Economic Journal, 2009, vol. 2, issue 1, 1-24

Abstract: Using the database consisting of 679,056 individual patents from the years 1985 through 2005, we analyzed technological capabilities of China. In general, we can see a substantial trend of Chinese firms catching up with Western counterparts in patent statistics. However, there are substantially heterogeneous patterns in technology catching up. This paper provides detailed case studies in two high-tech sectors: the pharmaceutical industry and mobile communications technology. These two fields show contrasting trends, in the sense that rapid catching up can be found in mobile communications technology, while Chinese companies are still lagging behind Western counterparts in the pharmaceutical industry.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1080/17538960902860055

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