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China's regional inequality in innovation capability, 1995 - 2004

Relying on a recently developed decomposition framework, this paper explores spatial distribution of innovation capability in China. It is found that at the regional level, China's inequality in innovation capability increased from 1995 to 2004. At the provincial level, the inequality decreased from 1995 to 2000, but increased from 2000 to 2004. Location, industrialization and urbanization, human capital, and openness (foreign direct investment) are significant contributors to the inequality in innovation capability. Unbalanced development in high-tech parks exerts a growing explanatory power in driving innovation disparity, which implies that institutional factor plays a direct role.

Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
9291909378=978-92-9190-937-7

Erschienen in
Series: WIDER Research Paper ; No. 2006/153

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Thema
innovation
regional disparity
inequality
decomposition
Asia
China
Regionale Disparität
Innovation
China

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fan, Peilei
Wan, Guanghua
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2006

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Fan, Peilei
  • Wan, Guanghua
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Entstanden

  • 2006

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