China's Rising IQ (Innovation Quotient) and Growth : Firm-level Evidence /

This paper examines whether the rapid growing firm patenting activity in China is associated with real economic outcome by building a unique dataset uniting detailed firm balance sheet information with firm patent data for the period of 1998-2007. We find strong evidence that within-firm increases i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: He, Hui
Other Authors: Fang, Jing, Li, Nan
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/249
Online Access:Full text available on IMF