Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of …

-led capital investment focus toward domestic consumption, productivity and higher levels of innovation. In this transition towards … increase indigenous (i.e. China-based) innovation in an effort to turn China into a global leader in R&D and innovation. In … this topic reflect the growing significance of China as a hub for global innovation, they have largely underestimated the …

In light of its importance of innovation on the political agenda it is necessary to provide guidance to decision makers … how innovation can effectively be fostered in practice and to disentangle and evaluate the effects of the determinants … suggested by the literature. This thesis focuses on the causal evaluation of three determinants of innovation that can all be …