Geography of Technology Transfer in China: A Glocal Network Approach

The majority of technology transfer studies done today are derived from Economics and Management Sciences, and there are relatively few studies that examine the geographical concerns of technology transfer from a glocal perspective. Geography of Technology Transfer in China fills the gap by aiming to discover the geographical character of technology transfer and its determinants from the interaction in both global and local scales, which involves the study of innovation geography, economic geography, urban economics, and regional economics.The chapters included in this book present a clear structure of a series of studies performed both theoretically and empirically. The research begins by constructing an analytic framework for urban technology transfer study and abstracts the study target from technological innovation subjects to cities, along with establishing the structure system, the dimension system, and the effect system of urban technology transfer research. This then develops an initial conceptual framework for urban technology transfer research. In addition, it analyses the hierarchy of China's urban technology innovation system and the segmentation of the technology transfer market, from the perspective of technology transfer. All in all, the book aspires to depict the spatial evolution of China's technological innovation system and technology transfer system from a city size perspective, thereby realising the spatial scale of technology transfer study.