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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …
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EU and China, Competitors and Partners in Innovation and High-Tech Products Trade International Course
Stanculescu, Ecaterina - In: Knowledge Horizons - Economics 6 (2014) 3, pp. 174-178
This article intends to present the up-to-date situation of EU and China in the innovation activity and the … complementarities and cooperation between them. We analyze also, the evolution in one of the most suggestive results of the innovation … international market is the share of medium and high-tech products in their trade. The article demonstrates that innovation efforts …
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Possibility of a Middle Income Trap in China: Assessment in Terms of the Literature on Innovation, Big Business and Inequality
Lee, Keun; Li, Shi - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 9 (2014) 3, pp. 370-397
checkpoints: innovation capability, world-class big businesses, and inequality. Based on these criteria, our conclusions are as …
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Globalisation of technology development: offshoring of R&D to China, India and Brazil
Chakrabarti, Alok K.; Bhaumik, Pradip K. - In: International Journal of Engineering Management and … 1 (2010) 1, pp. 68-79
are focusing on building global innovation networks, comprising of R&D units located in clusters of excellence around the …
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The world upside down
Fabre, Guilhem; Grumbach, Stephane - HAL - 2012
R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … societal upgrade. The Chinese authorities have designed an innovation strategy to face new economic and social challenges. The …
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The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention
Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008
This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. Specifically, we use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Fluctuations in H-1B admissions levels significantly influence the rate of Indian and Chinese patenting in...
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Incremental Reform and Distortions in China’s Product and Factor Markets
Zhang, Xiaobo; Tan, Kong-Yam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The purpose of economic reform is to reduce distortions and enhance efficiency. However, when reforms are partial and incremental, individuals and local governments are often able to capture the rent inherent in the gradual transition process. Young (2000) warned that such rent-seeking behavior...
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Domestic Market-based Industrial Cluster Development in Modern China
Ding, Ke - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007
China’s huge domestic market is constantly expanding, and is low-end demand oriented and highly dispersed. The domestic market-based development of China’s industrial cluster, however, is not only a quantitative expansion, but has also been accompanied with remarkable qualitative...
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Unions and firm innovation in China: Synergy or strife?
Fang, Tony; Ge, Ying - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 1, pp. 170-180
The ‘monopoly face’ of unions suggests that the rent-seeking activities of unions discourage research and development investment and that the collective bargaining rules may restrict management flexibility, thus deterring innovations. On the other hand, the arrival of unions in the workplace...
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International Patenting Strategies of Chinese Residents: an analysis of foreign-oriented patent families
Kashcheeva, Mila; Wunsch-Vincent, Sacha; Zhou, Hao - Economics and Statistics Division, Word Intellectual … - 2014
In terms of the number of its patent applications, in 2012 China has emerged as the country with the largest IP office in the world. The performance of the Chinese IP system is thus increasingly in the spotlight. While significant economic studies have been devoted to the rise of domestic...
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