Innovation and Regional Development in China

Innovation and Regional Development in China
Author: Ingo Liefner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2013-07-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136259368

Although China is now the ‘factory of the world’, there is no reason to expect that it will always be content with manufacturing labor-intensive goods for foreign corporations. Scholars must now ask: What is the current level of innovation in China? And how can we face this challenge and renovate industrial production and innovation capacities in developed countries? This edited volume investigates the unique characteristics of Chinese innovation and regional development, China’s policy framework, and the role that transnational corporations play in China’s increasing innovation activities. This book contributes to the heated debate regarding pathways for technology progress and regional development in developing countries, and identifies the ways in which local production networks respond to different configurations of external linkages. Linking patterns of global and local production networks with the trajectories of technology development and regional development allows the authors to theorize and test whether, and how, particular configurations of production networks generate divergent long-term local productivity growth and technological development outcomes. Innovation and Regional Development in China will be of interest to geographers, economists, China specialists, development specialists, and scholars working on innovation and regional development in developing areas and transition countries.

Run of the Red Queen

Run of the Red Queen
Author: Dan Breznitz
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 030015271X

This work closely examines the strengths and weaknesses of the Chinese economic system to discover where the nation may be headed and what the Chinese experience reveals about emerging market economies.

Regional Development in China

Regional Development in China
Author: Yehua Dennis Wei
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1134591268

This study systematically examines uneven regional development in China, focusing on three central agents: the foreign investor, the state and the region. Wei's findings have important implications for theories of, and policy towards, Chinese regional development. This book is a vital resource for those with an interest in transition economies.

China's Path to Innovation

China's Path to Innovation
Author: Xiaolan Fu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2015-02-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107046998

A rigorous examination of the motivations, sources, obstacles to and consequences of China's drive to become a leading innovative nation.

Incentives for Innovation in China

Incentives for Innovation in China
Author: Xuedong Ding
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2015-02-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317537742

In the past three decades, China has successfully transformed itself from an extremely poor economy to the world’s second largest economy. The country’s phenomenal economic growth has been sustained primarily by its rapid and continuous industrialization. Currently industry accounts for nearly two-fifths of China’s gross domestic product, and since 2009 China has been the world’s largest exporter of manufactured products. This book explores the question of how far this industrial growth has been the product of government policies. It discusses how government policies and their priorities have developed and evolved, examines how industrial policies are linked to policies in other areas, such as trade, technology and regional development, and assesses how new policy initiatives are encouraging China’s increasing success in new technology-intensive industries. It also demonstrates how China’s industrial policies are linked to development of industrial clusters and regions.

Regional Development and Economic Growth in China

Regional Development and Economic Growth in China
Author: Yanrui Wu
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2013
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9814439851

China has enjoyed unprecedented high economic growth for three decades. This growth has however been unbalanced and has led to some serious consequences which Chinese policy makers are now trying to rectify. One of the consequences is the deterioration of regional disparity which is threatening the stability of the Chinese society and hence the sustainability of current high economic growth in the country. This edited volume on China''s regional development and economic growth is hence timely and contains a collection of the latest research reports in this field. The authors represent a distinguished group of economists in Australia, China, Japan and Vietnam who are actively engaged in research of the Chinese economy. The topics addressed in the chapters cover important regional issues such as inequality, distribution of the creative class, FDI and industrial policies. Specifically, this volume aims to examine selected issues associated with China''s regional development, economic growth and FDI, and China and its neighboring economies. The findings will contribute to current economic policy debates.

China's Economic Development Strategies: Transformation And Innovation

China's Economic Development Strategies: Transformation And Innovation
Author: Rui Liu
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811205620

China is a powerful engine of the global economy and the country's rise is undoubtedly the outcome of its protracted campaign of designing and implementing national development strategies since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. This book reviews the transformation and innovation of China's economic development strategies, especially Deng Xiaoping's Three-Step strategy and Xi Jinping's internal and external strategies. By introducing the concept of strategic paradigm, it analyzes the theoretical basis of myriads of economic development strategies and predicts China's choice. With the evolutionary process and the outstanding problems in national development planning as the main thread, it discusses the improvement of the national planning system, specifically of the national overall planning system, the regional planning system, the interplay and conflict between regional planning. It also studies the reform of city-county planning system, major function-oriented zones (MFOZs) and planning legislation and institutionalization. It also attempts to put forward proposals to coordinate the interests of planning departments and make different types of planning at different administrative levels compatible.

China's Regional Economic Development: A Case Study Of Wenzhou

China's Regional Economic Development: A Case Study Of Wenzhou
Author: Jinchuan Shi
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2020-05-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811212023

Since the reform and opening-up in the late 1970s, Wenzhou City of China's Zhejiang Province has witnessed large-scale institutional change and rapid economic development. This book studies the institutional change and economic development in Wenzhou since China's reform and opening-up. It concludes that the most important characteristic of Wenzhou model is that the city is the first to promote industrialization and urbanization by privatization and marketization in Zhejiang. As privatization and marketization reflect reform, and industrialization and urbanization represent development, Wenzhou model promotes development through economic reform. In the early years of the reform and opening-up, the people of Wenzhou boldly faced the constraints of traditional planned economy, bravely explored the market-oriented reform and opened up a new path to regional economic development. This book also contains the stories of the people of Wenzhou.

Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development

Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development
Author: David Smallbone
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2016-07-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 178536555X

Entrepreneurship and innovation are arguably the main drivers of economic development today. This book explores the two in depth, at both the national and regional levels, using a variety of methodologies. The expert contributors discuss the subject from a policy perspective, with case studies from a host of countries including new member states of the EU as well as established EU member states. Split into three parts, the book focuses on: innovation, entrepreneurial activity and regional development, and entrepreneurship and SME policy.