Technology diversity and development: Evidence from China's industrial enterprises

被引：38

作者：

Fisher-Vanden, Karen ^{[2
]}

Jefferson, Gary H. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Brandeis Univ, Waltham, MA 02450 USA

[2] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS | 2008年 / 36卷 / 04期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

R&D; Technological change; Factor bias; China;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jce.2008.07.003

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

This paper investigates the phenomenon of individual firms simultaneously developing and adopting technical change with varying factor biases. Firms in a large panel of Chinese industrial enterprise data exhibit three channels of technical change, each associated with different patterns of firm-level factor bias and strategic purpose. The neo-classical growth process, associated with Harrod-neutral technical change, drives capital deepening. Inhouse R&D is found to be robustly labor- and material-using and capital- and energy-saving thereby capitalizing on China's comparative advantage. Finally, the purchase of imported technologies, which are comparatively capital-using, focuses on new product development. These diversified channels of technical change reveal a pattern of developing country technical change that is far more diversified than that suggested by the conventional growth literature. Journal of Comparative Economics 36 (4) (2008) 658-672. Pennsylvania State University, USA; Brandeis University, USA. (C) 2008 Association for Comparative Economic Studies. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：658 / 672

页数：15

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