Engineering Small Worlds in a Big Society: Assessing the Early Impacts of Nanotechnology in China

Review of Policy Research

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 752-775

  Klochikhin, Evgeny A ^a   Shapira, Philip ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catch up growth; China; Clusters; Developing countries; Development; Economic impacts; Emerging markets; Innovation; Institutions; Nanoscience; Nanotechnology; Transition economy

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; INNOVATION; INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

CHINA;

EID: 84869204588     PISSN: 1541132X     EISSN: 15411338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2012.00596.x     Document Type: Article

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