PhD Candidate, School of Management, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology, yuxiyulu@gmail.com
Ying Zhou is a PhD candidate in the School of Management, Faculty of Business at Queensland University of Technology. She is now doing research on China's regional innovation. She severs as the assistant to editor-in-chief for the newsletter of International Association for Chinese Management Research. She got her Master degree at Southeast University in China and did some research on public private partnership (PPP).
Regional Innovative Capacity: A Framework and Application to China's Context
Innovation is widely considered as the core driver of nations' economic growth and competitiveness. Since the start of economic reform in 1978, the provincial governments in China have gained much autonomy, which has led to the co-existence of multi-level innovation systems, national innovation system and regional (provincial) innovation system. With the economic development and social progress, the disparities in innovative capacity and performance among regions in China are becoming increasingly larger. Drawing upon regional innovation system and national innovative capacity literatures, this study attempts to develop a framework for analysing regional innovative capacity. The framework is useful for identifying drivers of China's regional innovative capacity and varying contribution of innovative actors in driving regional innovation given the shifting emphasis from technology transfer to technology innovation in China. More generally, the study will investigate the differences in regional innovation systems, institutional environments and innovative actors and how these differences impact regional innovative capacity in a transitional and transformational economy like China.
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