Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Huang C. 
Author-Name: Wu Y. 
Author-Name: Mohnen P. 
Author-Name: Zhao Y. 
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Government support, innovation and productivity in the Haidian (Beijing) District
Abstract: This paper examines whether the government support in favour of firms located in the Haidian district of Beijing, which includes the Zhongguancun Science Park, was effective in terms of innovation and economic performance. We use a dataset of 500 manufacturing firms that results from a merger of the 2007 nation-wide innovation survey and the Annual Survey of Industrial Enterprises databases fromthe National Bureau of Statistics. We find that among all firms state- or collectively-owned, nonstate- or collectively-owned and Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan or other foreign-funded firms that received direct government support for innovative activities only the non-state- or collectively-owned domestic firms invested more in innovation than the firms that did not receive such support. However, despite higher government support, domestic firms have lower labour productivity than foreign-funded firms, including those funded from Hong Kong, Macau, or Taiwan.
Keywords: Technological Change, Government Policy 
Classification-JEL: O38
Series: UNU-MERIT working papers
Creation-Date: 2013
Number: 2013-058
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2013/wp2013-058.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 284078
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2013058