Innovation and Regional Development in China (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy) - Hardcover

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9780415621687: Innovation and Regional Development in China (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy)
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ISBN 10: 0415621682 ISBN 13: 9780415621687
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Ingo Liefner is Professor of Economic Geography at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany.

Yehua Dennis Wei is Professor of Geography at the University of Utah, USA.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415621682
ISBN 13 
9780415621687
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
314
Editor
Liefner Ingo, Wei Yehua Dennis

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