The innovativeness and heterogeneity of foreign-invested high-tech companies in Shanghai

Growth and Change

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 522-549

  Liefner, Ingo ^a   Wei, Yehua Dennis ^b   Zeng, Gang ^c  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY; HUMAN CAPITAL; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INNOVATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84882966586     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/grow.12018     Document Type: Article

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