Zhang, F;
Wu, F;
(2019)
Rethinking the city and innovation: A political economic view from China's biotech.
Cities
, 85
pp. 150-155.
10.1016/j.cities.2018.09.003.
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Abstract
The city is arguably where innovations concentrate. Agglomeration and diversity are two major explanations for why innovations concentrate in the city. Existing studies tend to focus on knowledge dynamics, in particular interfirm networks, while paying insufficient attention to the process of urban development in which knowledge dynamics are materialized. We concur that the city itself does not possess such a power for innovation (Shearmur, 2012). Rather, it is an arena where various actors exert impacts on knowledge dynamics. In a view from China, we reveal why bio-tech innovations concentrate in particular places and what political economic processes contribute to such concentration. We highlight the need for a political economic analysis in economic geographical studies of innovation.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Rethinking the city and innovation: A political economic view from China's biotech |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cities.2018.09.003 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2018.09.003 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2018 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY license(http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ BY/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Innovation, High-tech parks, Biotech, Shanghai, China |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10057508 |
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