Does Technology Flow Matter for Regional Technological Specialization? Evidence from China

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10.2991/msmi-18.2018.37How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Region, Technological specialization, Technology flow, Knowledge spillover, Knowledge stock, Absorptive capacity.

Abstract

Based on patent database of the China State Intellectual Property Office, the study analyzes 75,458 transfer data of patent application rights and patent rights and 238,807 non-public data of patent citations, which are used as proxy variables of technology flow of market-based and non-market-based, respectively, among 30 provinces in China from 2009 to 2015. Random effect models of panel data results indicate that there are regional differences in the impact of technology flow on technological specialization. Under the conditions of market-based (rent spillovers), the technological specialization of regions with high technology knowledge stock are more positively affected by technology flow, but regions with low technology knowledge stock are not. While under the conditions of non-market-based (pure knowledge spillovers), there are not significant for both types of regions. Based on the findings of this study, policy implications are discussed.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Feng-Chao LIU
AU  - Yuan LIN
AU  - Rong-Kang MA
PY  - 2018/04
DA  - 2018/04
TI  - Does Technology Flow Matter for Regional Technological Specialization? Evidence from China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 5th International Conference on Management Science and Management Innovation (MSMI 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 209
EP  - 214
SN  - 2352-5428
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DO  - 10.2991/msmi-18.2018.37
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