Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89984 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7798
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the middle income trap as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises – more so in domestically owned than in foreign invested enterprises. Consistent with other research, we find that China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned enterprises, IKC growth has flowed more toward higher-tech, export-oriented industries, while among foreign invested enterprises, it has been oriented more toward domestic sales.
Subjects: 
intellectual capital
technology
economic growth
intellectual property
Asia
China
JEL: 
O31
O33
O34
O43
P33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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