The innovative performance of China's national innovation system

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The objective of this paper is to investigate the innovative performance of China's NIS in international comparison and the capacity of China's NIS in creating indigenous innovation. We provide insights drawing upon patent data and using patent families to determine the value of the underlying invention. For the timeframe we studied, China's comparative advantage exists in the creation of low value innovative performance, albeit increasingly in huge quantities. Constantly rising volumes of patent applications mirror both, the improved protection of intellectual property rights and increasing capacity for inventiveness. Supplemented by the continuous growth of the Chinese economy, improving conditions are reflected and reinforced by more R&D-intense FDI. Foreign firms' innovative performance associated with higher economic value is particularly strong.

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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Frankfurt School - Working Paper Series ; No. 158

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economywide Country Studies: Asia including Middle East ; Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence ; Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital ; Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Performance and Prospects
• Subject: National Innovation System ; Innovative Performance ; China ; Patents ; Innovation Policy

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Boeing, Philipp ; Sandner, Philipp
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
• (where): Frankfurt a. M.
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/45022