SHENZHEN: FORMATION OF A CITY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Otto Chui Chau Lin

Chapter 18 in Innovation and Entrepreneurship:Choice and Challenge, 2018, pp 161-171 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: In 2016, Shenzhen, adjacent to the northern border of Hong Kong, was the city with the highest GDP per capita in China. Over 50% of the economy was high-tech related. This was an exceedingly remarkable accomplishment considering 30 years ago, the city was merely a fishing village. The city now drew its economic strength from technology and entrepreneurship. Indeed, budding start-up companies were spawned in the city’s many technology parks and virtual campuses.What made this accomplishment possible? To understand it, one needed to review the big environmental changes that had shaped the city in the previous three decades.

Keywords: Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Innovation System; National Innovation System; Knowledge Economy; Knowledge Transfer; Technology Transfer; Technology Diffusion; University-Industry Interaction; Commercialization of Scientific Research; Roles of the Government; Roles of the University; Roles of Technology Institute; Environmental Factors of Innovation System; Innovation Helix; Innovation Quartet; Science Parks; Incubation; Incubator; Competitiveness; Innovation Competitiveness; Hard Power; Soft Power; Sustainable Innovation; Entrepreneurial Spirit; Globalization Age Competition; Management of Change; Hsin-Chu Science Park; ITRI (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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