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来源

CITIES,Vol.85,P.150-155

语言

英文

关键字

Innovation; High-tech parks; Biotech; Shanghai; China; RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; GLOBAL PRODUCTION NETWORKS; INDIGENOUS INNOVATION; SOUTH-KOREA; KNOWLEDGE; DYNAMICS; CLUSTERS; SCIENCE; STATE; TECHNOLOGY

作者单位

[Zhang, Fangzhu; Wu, Fulong] UCL, Bartlett Sch Planning, Cent House,14 Upper Woburn Pl, London WC1H 0NN, England. Wu, FL (reprint author), UCL, Bartlett Sch Planning, Cent House,14 Upper Woburn Pl, London WC1H 0NN, England. E-Mail: fangzhu.zhang@ucl.ac.uk; fulong.wu@ucl.ac.uk

摘要

The city is arguably where innovations concentrate. Agglomeration and diversity are two major explanations for why innovations concentrate in the city. Existing studies tend to focus on knowledge dynamics, in particular interfirm networks, while paying insufficient attention to the process of urban development in which knowledge dynamics are materialized. We concur that the city itself does not possess such a power for innovation (Shearmur, 2012). Rather, it is an arena where various actors exert impacts on knowledge dynamics. In a view from China, we reveal why bio-tech innovations concentrate in particular places and what political economic processes contribute to such concentration. We highlight the need for a political economic analysis in economic geographical studies of innovation.