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This chapter serves as an introductory note to the research context, key concepts and primary database upon which the book develops. Situated within the context of economic restructuring around the globe, China’s high-speed growth has been curtailed by both internal cost pressure and external market change. Under such circumstances, technological upgrading and innovation capabilities is the key to the successful restructuring process. The work adopts the regional innovation system approach, which proposes the institutional and organizational dimension as the supporting infrastructure that stabilizes the interactive learning process. By investigating the electronics industry in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), one of the biggest megacity regions in China, this work aims to address three primary questions. Firstly, it will explore theoretically and empirically the external channels that are able to trigger the local-scale knowledge spillover. Secondly, it aims to expand the understanding of the role of informality in reducing uncertainties and risk faced with innovation activities. Last but not least, the spatial differences and processes in regard to firm innovation is analyzed.
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The data is posted by China Statistical Bureau, April 2011.
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Source: http://www.gdiid.gd.gov.cn/gdiid/billion/lay2-3.htm. Accessed 15th September 2014.
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Fu, W. (2015). Introduction. In: Towards a Dynamic Regional Innovation System. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45416-9_1
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