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Does innovation capacity building help regional development? Policy expert narrations on development in China's "West"
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Abstract To avoid the middle-income trap, China's leaders call for innovation to accelerate development in China. However, since it is not clear how innovation and (regional) development reinforce each other, there is no blueprint strategy for successful innovation capacity building throughout China. Due to ... view more
To avoid the middle-income trap, China's leaders call for innovation to accelerate development in China. However, since it is not clear how innovation and (regional) development reinforce each other, there is no blueprint strategy for successful innovation capacity building throughout China. Due to resource scarcity in its "Western" regions, it is thus far from certain that innovation capacity building will support regional development. Departing from sociology of knowledge, narrations are constitutive of policy practice. This article analyses narrative patterns of policy experts to understand how innovation capacity building and regional development are negotiated in China's lagging "West." The comparison of Yunnan and Chongqing cases demonstrates that innovation capacity building is primarily infused with theoretical expectations: resource scarcity does not allow for grounding innovation as a strategy of regional development in the local context. This leads to narrations of "local" alternatives to innovation capacity building in centralist China.... view less
Keywords
China; regional development; innovation policy; regional planning; economic development (on national level); socioeconomic development; regional difference
Classification
Economic Policy
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Free Keywords
Capacity Building; Chongqing; Regionaler Wirtschafts-/Entwicklungsraum; Selbsthilfeförderung; Strukturelle Heterogenität; Ungleichgewicht; Wirkung/Auswirkung; Yunnan
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 137-160
Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 50 (2021) 2
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed