A team of China- and U.S.-based geographers develops the theoretical concept of “learning field” to advance the study of technological innovation through networking under conditions of ongoing globalization. The concept is applied in a survey of ca. 100 firms in the Zhengzhou Economic and...

1. Introduction : innovation and regional development in China / Ingo Liefner and Yehua Dennis Wei -- 2. Explaining innovation and regional development in China : how much can we learn from applying established Western theories? / Ingo Liefner -- 3. Regional structures and trends in China's...

According to the authors, sectoral shifts of labour force in China, the socialist country with world's 22 percent of population, dominant state-owned enterprises, strong government control, and large spatial disparities should be different from that in many developing countries. They attempt to...