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Business–State Interactions and Technology Development Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Two Metropolises

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This chapter explores how variations in business–state interactions encourage divergent approaches to developing technology development regimes across two metropolises—Shanghai and Shenzhen. Technology development regimes are understood as the combinations of state industrial policies and corporate entrepreneurship strategies to deal with major challenges involved in managing technical change. These policies and strategies are causally connected, this chapter argues, with two dimensions of business–state relations—the state organization of industrialization processes and business coordination of economic and innovation activities. It posits that regional or subnational political economies with divergent configurations of state organization and business coordination are expected to differ in their respective patterns and trajectories of technology development. This central proposition is sustained through a focused comparison of technology development processes in the ICT industry of Shanghai and Shenzhen.

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Zhang, X. (2018). Business–State Interactions and Technology Development Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Two Metropolises. In: Zhang, X., Zhu, T. (eds) Business, Government and Economic Institutions in China. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64486-8_11

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