Development of Science and Technology Parks in China, 1988–2008

Zhang, Haiyang; Sonobe, Tetsushi

doi:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2011-6

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“…In addition, firms are more likely to fail as clusters grow, suggesting the existence of diseconomies of agglomeration. This last view is confirmed by two studies on Chinese STPs: Hu () finds that the number of firms in the parks has a negative impact on labour productivity growth and Zhang and Sonobe () find that, within STPs, congestion effects may outweigh agglomeration economy effect on productivity. Finally, Squicciarini () in her studies on Finnish STPs uses the STP size as a control variable and finds that size positively affects tenant's patenting activity.…”

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The influence of Science and Technology Park characteristics on firms' innovation results

Albahari

Barge‐Gil

Pérez-Canto

et al. 2018

Papers in Regional Science

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The effectiveness of Science and Technology Parks (STPs) as instruments of innovation policy has generated thriving debate among academics, practitioners and policy makers. However, research mostly does not consider STPs' heterogeneity. The present paper analyses the influence of different STP characteristics on their tenants' performance. Using data on 849 firms and 25 STPs from the 2009 Community Innovation Survey for Spain and a survey of STP managers respectively, we find that: (i) firms located in very new or longer established STPs show better innovative performance; (ii) the size of the STP and its management company positively affects the innovative performance of tenants while services provision has no effect on firms' achieving better results; and (iii) firms in less technologically developed regions benefit more from location in an STP.2

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Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

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The influence of Science and Technology Park characteristics on firms' innovation results

Albahari

Barge‐Gil

Pérez-Canto

et al. 2018

Papers in Regional Science

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“…There had been 438 national-level development zones as of the year 2017 (Shen, 2018), and more than 10,000 development zones at provincial, city, and county levels by the mid-2010s (Liu & Yang, 2014). Various policy incentives are present to attract investment, including tax breaks, streamlined regulatory procedures, and better financing access (Heilmann et al, 2013; Zhang & Sonobe, 2011). For instance, the Wuxi municipal government arranged start-up capital and free office space for their target firms (Heilmann et al, 2013).…”

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Wining and Dining Government Officials: What Drives Political Networking in Chinese Private Ventures?

2020

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Managerial networking with political actors has long been recognized as a crucial co-option strategy to navigate the challenging institutional environment in emerging economies. However, we know much less about what drives the variation of political networking investment by private ventures. Drawing on resource dependence theory, we unpack the dyadic business-government relations and identify the key organizational and environmental factors that shape the power dependence relationships between private ventures and the government. By examining power imbalance and mutual dependence in this dyadic relationship and considering both the necessity and the capability of political networking, we develop hypotheses regarding the ways in which size-, connection-, and location-based dependencies affect firms’ political networking intensity. These hypotheses are tested through a unique survey of Chinese private ventures. Our study finds that political networking intensity (1) has an inverted U-shaped relationship with firm size, (2) is negatively associated with the presence of embedded political ties while positively associated with that of achieved political connections, and (3) is smaller when the focal firm is located in business development zones. This research bears rich implications for our understanding of corporate political activity in emerging economies from a resource dependence lens.

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“…Hence, to foster indigenous innovation and high-tech small firms, technology business incubators (TBI) were established. Though the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) sponsored high-tech business incubators in 1988 through the 'Torch programme' and collaborations between research and production since the 6th FYP (1981)(1982)(1983)(1984)(1985), the first TBI in Eastlake was established in 1987 outside the existing public policy framework to encourage academic researchers to create technology ventures (Xiao & North, 2014 (Zhang & Sonobe, 2011).…”

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China’s Policy on Science and Technology: Implications for the Next Industrial Transition

Agarwala¹,

Chaudhary²

2019

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs

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Since the formation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Science and Technology (S&T) has been the focus area for Chinese economic development. However, little was known about China’s scientific mission, working and policies till the end of 1978. Based on the studies and the developments made, one can say that China’s S&T policy has evolved through four phases. The first phase (1949–1959) supported the development of heavy industries along the Soviet lines; the second phase (1959–1976) witnessed economic stagnation and ideological domination of technology projects; the third phase (1976–2001) focused on market-driven and product-driven research and now in her fourth phase of S&T development, since 2002, China has aimed to develop high technology industries and the nascent clean-energy or green technology with a focus on innovation. These policy changes entirely reformed the way China’s industrial enterprises are being managed today as compared to earlier years. However, some thinkers do not consider these reforms as sweeping or successful. In order to better appreciate the implications of the S&T policy in China’s industrial transition, the article analyses the role and effects of the policy that has assisted in enhancing the country’s S&T strength and improving the competitiveness, while supporting its economic and social development.

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Development of Science and Technology Parks in China, 1988–2008

Cited by 32 publications

References 31 publications

The influence of Science and Technology Park characteristics on firms' innovation results

The influence of Science and Technology Park characteristics on firms' innovation results

Wining and Dining Government Officials: What Drives Political Networking in Chinese Private Ventures?

China’s Policy on Science and Technology: Implications for the Next Industrial Transition

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