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Title: The Territorial Dynamics Of Innovation In China And India

Author(s): Riccardo Crescenzi, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Michael Storper

Publication Date: July 2012

Keyword(s): China, Geography, India, Innovation, R&D, Regions and Socioeconomic conditions

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: This paper analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in these two countries, we show that both countries exhibit increasingly strong polarisation of innovative capacity in a limited number of urban areas. But the factors behind this polarisation and the strong contrasts in innovative capacity between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is fundamentally driven by agglomeration forces, linked to population, industrial specialisation and infrastructure endowment. Innovative areas in China, rather than generate knowledge spillovers, seem to produce strong backwash effects. In India, by contrast, innovation is much more dependent on a combination of good local socioeconomic structures and investment in science and technology. Indian innovation hubs also generate positive knowledge spillovers to other regions.

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Crescenzi, R, Rodríguez-Pose, A and Storper, M. 2012. 'The Territorial Dynamics Of Innovation In China And India'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=9038