Projekt: Talent, Technological innovation and economic Growth in China

China’s economic development record over the
past few decades has been remarkable. Both
scholarly research and popular commentary
have noted the nation’s meteoric rise as a
powerful new economic competitor. In the main, it
is argued that Chinese development has turned on
the nation’s huge market and low costs, especially in
manufacturing. But more recent commentators note
China’s rapidly rising rate of human capital production,
particularly its huge and growing production of
scientists and engineers, alongside rising investments
in its universities and academic infrastructure and
its growing ability to conduct research and development
and attract the R&D affiliates of foreign multinationals.
But few if any analyses have focused on the
regional underpinnings of Chinese development and
none to our knowledge has focused on regional differences
in the production and use of human capital or
talent.