Special Economic Zones and Cluster Dynamics: China

Rubini, Lauretta; Tommaso, Marco R. Di; Barbieri, Elisa

doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.73065-0

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“…Evolution from industrial park to cluster promotion. The policy originally fostered industrial parks, but, after learning from the successful experiences of other countries' clusters, the Chinese government restructured it to support, drive and accelerate clusters growth (Rubini et al 2015).…”

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Industrial Policy in China: The Planned Growth of Specialised Towns in Guangdong Province

Barbieri

Tommaso

Pollio

et al. 2019

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society

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We analyse one of the most important policy experiences for industrial clustering in Southern China—the Specialised Towns programme—that has transformed some Chinese clusters into the backbone of global production chains. We offer a long-term, detailed overview of the policy programme and of Guangdong’s specialised towns, classifying them as endogenous or exogenous according to their features, and investigate their contribution to local growth and rebalancing. This analysis of the Specialised Towns programme contributes to the international debate on revisiting industrial policy and suggests that the discussion should conceive them as articulated processes to reach long-term societal objectives.

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Industrial Policy in China: The Planned Growth of Specialised Towns in Guangdong Province

Barbieri

Tommaso

Pollio

et al. 2019

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society

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“…Currently, the successful experience of SEZ in industrialized countries implemented in the ХIХ-ХХ centuries (Italy, Great Britain, the USA, Japan, and Germany) is considered as an example for successful industrial development in China and India, where they are encouraged through special preferential policies (Rubini et al, 2015). Specific tools have been developed for shaping the geography of industry: clusters have been promoted, as well as a number of SEZ have been managed with the specific goal of focusing early stages of industrial development in limited areas, learning from the previous experience of industrialized countries.…”

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Model For Coordinating The Interests Of Business Participants In Special Economic Zones

Streltsov¹,

Yakovlev²,

Karsuntseva³

2021

Global Challenges and Prospects of the Modern Economic Development Proceedings of Global Challenges and Prospects of the Modern

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“…In a similar context, the territorial specialization policies, focused on FDIs' attraction, have been supported and coordinated by centralized industrial policies with the scope to direct public and private investments toward strategic priorities mainly related to increasing the local industry value added (Dahlman, 2009;Lin and Wang, 2009;Huang and Sharif, 2015). These measures have often been characterized by the recourse to selective practices such as the direct support of specific sectors or single firms and the adoption of incentives aimed at regulating the capital inflows conditional on technological content criteria and propensity to interact with local subcontractors (Linden, 2004;Ash et al, 2012, Yang, 2014Rubini et al, 2015). Similar dynamics have favored mechanisms of imitative learning adapted to the context (Fan and Watanabe, 2006;Barbieri, 2010;Liu et al, 2011;Rubini and Barbieri, 2013) based on the positive interaction between FDI and local capabilities widely stressed in the literature (Abramovitz, 1986;Basu and Weil, 1998;Fu and Gong, 2011).…”

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Vietnamese industrial development: following Washington on the road to Beijing

Tommaso

Angelino

2019

IJOEM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the main features of the Vietnamese economic transition and industrial development pattern analyzing the evolution of the industrial policy formulation in the light of the changes in the country’s productive specialization and competitive position in the international division of labor. The authors also aim at stressing the role exerted by different external paradigm of influence on the Vietnamese policy making and the function of selectivity as an instrument to upgrade the competitiveness of the Vietnamese production system. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a descriptive analysis of the Vietnamese recent economic trends and structural transformation dynamics. It realizes a literature review concerning the academic debate on the role and the effects of industrial policy in Vietnam identifying a categorization between different theoretical perspectives. In addition, it implements an in-depth analysis of the main industrial planning strategies promoted by the government investigating the evolution of the lines of the country’s economic policy agenda. On the basis of the previous analyses, the paper draws out some conclusions about the application of selective criteria in Vietnamese industrial policy interventions. Findings An in-depth examination of the planning prescriptions suggests that the Vietnamese government has undertaken a pronounced paradigm change in the course of last 15 years. The Vietnamese planning approach displays a shift toward a systematic and extended vision concerning the role of industrial policy, which result to be in clear discontinuity with respect to the market-friendly approach supported by Washington institutions. Nevertheless, this configuration outlines several limits characterizing the Vietnamese planning activity, connected to the lack of transparency and efficiency of the governance mechanisms that risk to undermine the effectiveness of the upgrading policies. Originality/value The paper focuses on Vietnam, an emerging economy in transition whose development trajectory has been characterized by peculiar economic and policy dynamics. The hybrid character of the government policy-making approach makes it difficult to identify univocal interpretations concerning the country’s industrial development dynamics and the resulting policy implications. In this perspective, the analysis has shed light on the mechanisms conditioning the formulation of industrial policy in Vietnam, focusing on the external influences exerted on its definition and on the domestic interactions associated to its implementation.

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Special Economic Zones and Cluster Dynamics: China

Cited by 14 publications

References 6 publications

Industrial Policy in China: The Planned Growth of Specialised Towns in Guangdong Province

Industrial Policy in China: The Planned Growth of Specialised Towns in Guangdong Province

Model For Coordinating The Interests Of Business Participants In Special Economic Zones

Vietnamese industrial development: following Washington on the road to Beijing

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