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Observing regional divergence of Chinese nanotechnology centers

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  • Motoyama, Yasuyuki
  • Cao, Cong
  • Appelbaum, Richard

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While China has emerged as one of the world's leading technological innovators, past studies have uncovered that technology centers have been overwhelmingly concentrated in Beijing and Shanghai. We take a step further to investigate whether this geographic concentration has persisted over time with nanotechnology-related patents. We apply the spatial analysis techniques and employ Gini's coefficient and global Moran's I. We additionally test the spatial patterns at four scales: the municipality, the county, the intra-metropolitan, and the distance-based.

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  • Motoyama, Yasuyuki & Cao, Cong & Appelbaum, Richard, 2014. "Observing regional divergence of Chinese nanotechnology centers," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 81(C), pages 11-21.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:tefoso:v:81:y:2014:i:c:p:11-21
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2013.02.013
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