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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162926203321

Autore

He Hui

Titolo

China’s Rising IQ (Innovation Quotient) and Growth : : Firm-level Evidence / / Hui He, Nan Li, Jing Fang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2016

ISBN

1-4755-6799-5

1-4755-6817-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (42 pages) : illustrations (some color), graphs, tables

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

LiNan

FangJing

Disciplina

338.951

Soggetti

Economic development - China

Industrial productivity - China

Investments: Stocks

Macroeconomics

Production and Operations Management

Economic Growth of Open Economies

Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General

Technological Change: Choices and Consequences

Diffusion Processes

Institutions and Growth

Economywide Country Studies: Asia including Middle East

Socialist Enterprises and Their Transitions

Production

Cost

Capital and Total Factor Productivity

Capacity

Macroeconomics: Production

Pension Funds

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Financial Instruments

Institutional Investors

Employment

Unemployment

Wages

Intergenerational Income Distribution

Aggregate Human Capital

Aggregate Labor Productivity

Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise: General



Investment & securities

Public ownership

nationalization

Total factor productivity

Productivity

Stocks

Capital productivity

Public enterprises

Financial institutions

Economic sectors

Industrial productivity

Government business enterprises

China, People's Republic of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

This paper examines whether the rapid growing firm patenting activity in China is associated with real economic outcome by building a unique dataset uniting detailed firm balance sheet information with firm patent data for the period of 1998-2007. We find strong evidence that within-firm increases in patent stock are associated with increases in firm size, exports, and more interestingly, total factor productivity and new product revenue share. Event studies using first-time patentees as the treatment group and non-patenting firms selected based on Propensity-Score Matching method as the control group also demonstrate similar effects following initial patent application. We also find that although state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on average have lower level of productivity and are less innovative compared to their non-state-owned peers, increases in patent stock tend to be associated with higher productivity growth among SOEs, especially for patents with lower innovative content. The latter could reflect the preferential government policies enjoyed by SOEs.