Since the mid-twentieth century, big-science research infrastructure (RI) has become an indispensable component in modern scientific research. Yet little is known about how emerging countries can use these expensive infrastructures to improve their indigenous innovation and catch up with...

We investigate the role of the state in the R&D intensification of China’s manufacturing industries. Using a data set that spans the population of large and medium-sized Chinese manufacturing firms from 2007 to 2016, we find evidence of two distinct models of technological innovation in China:...

An increasing number of countries are setting up policy programs to attract talented expats to return. Can such programs help reverse the brain drain of elite scientists from developing countries to the developed world? Will they facilitate or hinder returnee scientists’ knowledge...

This paper investigates whether and how import competition affects firm innovation. Using China’s World Trade Organization (WTO) accession as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that import competition reduces firm innovation, which is consistent with the Schumpeterian effect. We also find...

We examine how industry-university collaboration (IUC) enhances the commercialization of corporate innovation using a comprehensive dataset of 93,303 industrial firms and 153 notable research universities in China. Measuring IUC with the occurrence and frequency of patents co-assigned to both...

We adopt a Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) of innovative activity to disentangle countries' patenting capacity from patenting efficiency. We analyze the determinants of innovative capacity of a set of 26 OECD countries plus China, over the period 1992-2007, to show if and how China's...

This is a brief introduction to the book: Robin Hui Huang, Fintech Regulation in China: Principles, Policies and Practices (Cambridge University Press, 2021)This book is the first monograph on the regulation of financial technology (Fintech) in China. Fintech brings about paradigm changes to the...

This paper uncovers over 10 central level and over 150 provincial/municipal level patent targets, mostly to be met by 2015, within a wide range of Chinese policy documents. The analysis suggests there are weaknesses in certain targets due to the absence of important criteria for ensuring patent...

Can historical institutions affect today's firm innovation? We analyze a historical experiment in 1902, when the foreign-run Chinese Maritime Customs Service (CMC), known for its efficient and transparent governance, took over some of the notoriously corrupt Chinese Native Custom stations and...

Can historical institutions affect today's firm innovation? We analyze a historical experiment in 1902, when the foreign-run Chinese Maritime Customs Service (CMC), known for its efficient and transparent governance, took over some of the notoriously corrupt Chinese Native Custom stations and...