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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1124-1141 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Growth and change |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 13 Jun 2020 |
| Publication status | Published - 3 Sept 2020 |
Abstract
China's government aims to become an innovation nation and promotes the development of so-called indigenous innovation. Under this paradigm of state-encouraged innovation, however, it is unclear how domestic firms organize their innovation processes. We distinguish between two strategies in that respect: closed versus open innovation. Our findings suggest that firms with closed innovation processes collaborate in close geographic distance, rely on DUI-modes of learning, and collaborations are based on guanxi. In contrast, firms with open innovation processes collaborate over large distances and rely on STI-modes of learning that are not necessarily guanxi-based. The findings help to understand the heterogeneous nature of indigenous innovation in China.
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- Environmental Science(all)
- Global and Planetary Change
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In: Growth and change, Vol. 51, No. 3, 03.09.2020, p. 1124-1141.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Implications of China's innovation policy shift: Does “indigenous” mean closed?
AU - Losacker, Sebastian
AU - Liefner, Ingo
N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under Grant Numbers Li981/8-1 and Li981/15-1 The authors wish to thank Prof. Dr. Gang Zeng and his group at East China Normal University, Shanghai, and Dr. Sabine Jessberger, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, for carrying out the company survey. Previous versions of this article were presented at RSA Annual Conference in Santiago de Compostela, Spain in June 2019 and at the Merian Centre Beijing Workshop at FU Berlin, Germany in November 2018. We thank all participants for their valuable comments.
PY - 2020/9/3
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N2 - China's government aims to become an innovation nation and promotes the development of so-called indigenous innovation. Under this paradigm of state-encouraged innovation, however, it is unclear how domestic firms organize their innovation processes. We distinguish between two strategies in that respect: closed versus open innovation. Our findings suggest that firms with closed innovation processes collaborate in close geographic distance, rely on DUI-modes of learning, and collaborations are based on guanxi. In contrast, firms with open innovation processes collaborate over large distances and rely on STI-modes of learning that are not necessarily guanxi-based. The findings help to understand the heterogeneous nature of indigenous innovation in China.
AB - China's government aims to become an innovation nation and promotes the development of so-called indigenous innovation. Under this paradigm of state-encouraged innovation, however, it is unclear how domestic firms organize their innovation processes. We distinguish between two strategies in that respect: closed versus open innovation. Our findings suggest that firms with closed innovation processes collaborate in close geographic distance, rely on DUI-modes of learning, and collaborations are based on guanxi. In contrast, firms with open innovation processes collaborate over large distances and rely on STI-modes of learning that are not necessarily guanxi-based. The findings help to understand the heterogeneous nature of indigenous innovation in China.
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U2 - 10.1111/grow.12400
DO - 10.1111/grow.12400
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