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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"industrial upgrading"”.
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Industrial Upgrading and China’s Electric Vehicle and Wind Turbine Industries
This thesis studies the mechanism of industrial upgrading and examines the cases of China’s two renewable high-tech industries, the electric vehicle industry and the wind turbine industry. The thesis firstly explores the relevant literatures in the fields of economics, politics and business, given …
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A Region-based Business Ecosystem for Industrial Upgrading: Evidence from the Electronics Industry of Shenzhen
… explores the underlying mechanisms for the upgrading process of the electronics industry in Shenzhen. Industrial upgrading has been an international phenomenon since the globalisation of manufacturing in the late 1970s but to date no comprehensive framework has been proposed for the …
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GLOBAL PRODUCTION NETWORKS, STRATEGIC COUPLING AND THE DYNAMICS OF INDUSTRIAL UPGRADING IN PEARL RIVER DELTA, CHINA
While export-oriented industrialization has become a well-known strategy for promoting industrial growth in a latecomer region, whether local firms can catch up with transnational corporations is still in question. By using the concept of strategic coupling, this thesis proposes a four-fold …
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Is cost competitiveness a prerequisite for growth? : application of the theory of comparative advantage in understanding developing countries' export growth in Asia
… demand for further specialization through industrial upgrading and hands over its declining industries to the developing country. When the advanced country's need for further specialization is not sufficient, the developing country would be compelled into cost competition with the advanced …
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The duality of innovation : implications for the role of the university in economic development
… has been framed in terms of its contribution to industrial innovation. The conventional wisdom views this contribution as occurring primarily through the technology transfer model. The university, in this way of thinking, must move closer to industry and the marketplace by translating research …
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Rethinking the Development of the Automobile Industry in China
<p>Governmental industrial policies have significant influence on industrial performance. Many developing countries that lack capital and a good technology base use foreign direct investment (FDI)-dependent governmental policies to induce multinational corporations (MNCs) to invest in their …
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Exports from Ukraine to the European Union: macro-, micro- and political economy determinants
… with the EU has been associated with firm-level industrial upgrading, although FDI does increase the likelihood to export to the EU. Trade with the CIS has been associated with higher commodity diversification, which in turn is known to be associated with higher growth potential. On the level of …
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Evolución de gobernanza de las cadenas de suministro y las relaciones alimentarias en Ecuador. Impactos socioeconómicos, nutricionales y ambientales en territorios amazónicos
… and Peruvian Amazonia, showing that similar industrial upgrading strategies generate divergent socioenvironmental outcomes due to contrasting institutional and territorial conditions. The third article analyses an indigenous post-cacao agroforestry system in Rukullakta (Napo, Ecuador), …
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Transforming the "world factory" : designing for a [post]industrial Shenzhen
… This has led to a vastly sprawled, monotonous industrial urbanism, where urban environment has become a spatial product rather than a living city. However, just as Western post-industrial cities have experienced, some Chinese cities are currently going through a deindustrialization process due …
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Varieties of innovation : the creation of wind and solar industries in China, Germany, and the United States
… presume a division of labor between firms in industrialized economies that invent and commercialize new technologies and those in developing economies that focus on production. Even as global supply chains have allowed firms to outsource and offshore manufacturing activities, such literatures …
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Industrial Policy and Global Value Chains: The experience of Guangdong, China and Malaysia in the Electronics Industry
… Chains (GVC) and their potential for encouraging industrial upgrading in developing economies has proliferated during the last two decades, but an in-depth understanding of what the scope for implementing industrial policy is in the GVC context is lacking in the literature. This thesis aims to …