China presents us with a conundrum. How has a developing country with a spectacularly
inefficient financial system, coupled with asset-destroying state-owned firms, managed to …

IN 1978, DURING THE THIRD PLENUM OF THE ELEVENTH NATIONAL party congress,
Deng Xiaoping initiated a new economic policy that was to have dramatic economic and …

The starting point of this book is the acknowledgement that on one side Chinese individuals,
freer from the constraints of the State, have to rely on their own efforts for their well-being …

This article examines the creation of industrial enterprises and the basic models of firm-level
technological learning behaviour of the last 20 years in China. Six case studies of …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore the limitations of the national system of
innovation (NSI) approach in countries in developing economies with at best incomplete …

With the advent of economic globalization, the terms of debate over the political and social
conditions necessary to foster development in the Global South have shifted. Examining …

Using China's semiconductor design industry as a case, this article examines the claims
made by global production network (GPN) and transnational technology community (TTC) …

With a population of nearly 1.5 billion and the world's second largest economy, China is a
major player in the world today, and yet many in the West know very little about …

This research study analyses the development of industrial clusters in three institutional
contexts in South China to better understand how policies have been developed and …

1 Over the last 23 years China's GNP has increased sevenfold. In terms of purchasing power
parity (PPP), China is number two in the world, and it has the sixth largest volume of external …