Evolving into a Regional Innovation System: How Governance impact on Innovation in Shenzhen and Dongguan, China?

Wenying Fu (), Javier Revilla Diez and Daniel Schiller

No 1119, Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) from Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography

Abstract: Governance constitutes elementary supportive infrastructure for regional innovation systems. This paper extends the evolutionary lens of governance into initial industrialization phase and examines the impact of their evolution into regional innovation systems on fostering innovation activities. Drawing on the empirical substances in Shenzhen and Dongguan, China, a path-dependent nature of institutional design on supporting innovation has been discovered. The paper shows that the dirigiste globalized production system in Shenzhen in 1980s has gradually evolved to a higher level of interactive regional innovation system than the grassroots globalized production system in Dongguan, where innovation is still passively managed by global players. Finally, policy implication is discussed for the construction of regional innovation systems under different governance modalities in the initial industrialization phase.

Keywords: ego-networks; geographical proximity; innovation performance; knowledge networks; technological relatedness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B15 R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2011-11, Revised 2011-11
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