China's R&D explosion: Analyzing productivity effects across ownership types and over time
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- Boeing, Philipp & Mueller, Elisabeth & Sandner, Philipp, 2016. "China's R&D explosion—Analyzing productivity effects across ownership types and over time," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 45(1), pages 159-176.
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Keywords
productivity; R&D; China; ownership type; patents;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CNA-2015-02-16 (China)
- NEP-EFF-2015-02-16 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-INO-2015-02-16 (Innovation)
- NEP-SBM-2015-02-16 (Small Business Management)
- NEP-TID-2015-02-16 (Technology and Industrial Dynamics)
- NEP-TRA-2015-02-16 (Transition Economics)
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