| ANTECEDENTS OF CHINESE NEW-TO-THE-WORLD INNOVATIONS: EVIDENCE FROM INTERNATIONAL PATENT STATISTICS |
Received:October 15, 2017 Revised:October 15, 2017 |
Key Words: New-to-the-world innovations; International Patents; Econometric Analysis |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | Zhijing Zhu | The University of Nottingham Ningbo China | | Johann Peter Murmann* | The University of New South Wales |
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| This study investigates which Chinese sectors are more likely to create new-to-the-world innovations and why. We first developed a new measure on all patents granted by the European Patent Office to Chinese applicants since 1983, finding that Chinese sectoral innovativeness diverges substantially. We then ran wide-ranging econometric analyses and noticed that Chinese sectoral innovativeness is only associated with five out of dozens of plausible factors: Intensity of domestic patent stock, of R&D personnel, of firm S&T self-funding, of government S&T funding, and of technology renovation expenditure. |
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