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Rethinking the city and innovation: A political economic view from China's biotech

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. Green open access

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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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