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A Theory of Innovation: Market Transition, Property Rights, and Innovative Activity

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  • Victor Nee
  • Jeong-han Kang
  • Sonja Opper

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The aim of this paper is to specify a theory to explain why transitions to a market economy cause a shift to a higher level of innovation. Marketization increases the power of economic actors relative to political actors, increases inter-firm competition, creates new opportunities for entrepreneurship, and subsequently motivates innovative activity. For our empirical application, we focus on China's transition economy, which offers a broad range of institutional environments to examine the relation between market transition and increasing innovative activity by entrepreneurs and firms.

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  • Victor Nee & Jeong-han Kang & Sonja Opper, 2010. "A Theory of Innovation: Market Transition, Property Rights, and Innovative Activity," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 166(3), pages 397-425, September.
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    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • P31 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - Socialist Enterprises and Their Transitions
    • P3 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions

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