Sources of Innovation in China's Manufacturing Sector

Imported or Developed in-House

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4142575
AutoresYifei Sun (0000-0002-2321-4795, Department of Geography, California State University, Northridge, CA91330, USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2002
Volume34
Fascículo6
Páginas1059-1072
Data de publicação2002-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a34107
OpenAlexW1997022726
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21
Referências citadas30

The author investigates the innovative behavior of large and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in China. It is revealed that in-house research and development (R&D) efforts, rather than imported technologies, are the primary sources of industrial innovation in China. Regarding in-house R&D efforts, it is found that in-house R&D laboratories are important sources for the creation of new products as measured by patents, though it is enterprise-wide R&D spending rather than the mere presence of in-house facilities that is more likely to lead to market success. Concerning importation of technologies, it is revealed that the limited nature of efforts to absorb imported technologies has become a serious barrier to fulfilling the potential of these technologies and to upgrading China's internal creative capabilities. In addition, domestic technology markets have not been effectively linked to large and medium-sized industrial enterprises, despite China's enduring efforts in this direction since the middle 1980s. It is therefore concluded that the organization of R&D activities in China's industrial enterprises is still fragmented, with only weak linkages between technology importation and assimilation, between industrial R&D and domestic technology markets, and between business and R&D activities within enterprises

Business · China · Commerce · Domestic market · Economics · Geography · Industrial organization · International economics · International trade · Manufacturing sector · Upgrade · Economic Growth and Productivity · Firm Innovation and Growth