What Drives Regional Innovation Capacity Build-Up in China?

Xiaohua Yang, Ying Zhou, Roger (Rongxin) Chen and Richard Carney

Chapter 6 in Business Practices, Growth and Economic Policy in Emerging Markets, 2020, pp 89-113 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Building innovation capacity in China is critical to continuing economic development. This study adopts regional innovation system (RIS) and regional innovation capacity (RIC) approaches to investigate the relatively new phenomenon of RIC and identify key factors that explain variations in innovation capacity across regions of China. Our study empirically shows that the key drivers of RIC differ substantively between radical innovation and incremental innovation. Specifically, our findings suggest that innovation capacity is largely related to innovation inputs and these inputs tend to affect incremental innovation more than radical innovation in the context of China. The second finding is a relatively new phenomenon, which we explain using the continuum of CME-LME. Our study contributes to the literature on RIC in a transitional economic context and provides a number of implications for future studies on RIC. The findings also provide significant implications for government policymakers.

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Developing Countries; International Business; Economic Policy; Economic Development; Business Practices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F23 F68 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789811221750_0006 (application/pdf)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789811221750_0006 (text/html)
Ebook Access is available upon purchase.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789811221750_0006

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in World Scientific Book Chapters from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().