Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Wang L. 
Author-Name: Meijers H.H.M. 
Author-Name: Szirmai A. 
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Technological spillovers and industrial growth in Chinese regions
Abstract: This paper focuses on the role of interregional technology spillovers in the process of industrial growth in Chinese regions in the period 1990-2005. Inflows of FDIincreased rapidly from 1990 till 1998, slowing down thereafter. Domestic RDinvestment accelerated after 1998. Regional industrial growth benefits from bothinterregional RD spillovers and after 1998 from international FDI spillovers.However, in contrast to RD spillovers, FDI spillovers contribute conditionally,mainly in areas where local RD stocks are high enough. Interestingly, indirectinterregional FDI spillover effects are negative. Foreign investment in one regionattracts resources from regions with less FDI, thus having a negative influence ongrowth of industrial output in neighbouring regions.
Keywords: Economic Growth of Open Economies, Industrialization, Manufacturing and Service Industries, Choice of Technology, Technological Change, Diffusion Processes, Regional Economic Activity, Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity 
Classification-JEL: F43, O14, O33, R11, R12
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2013
Number: 2013-044
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2013/wp2013-044.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 458995
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2013044