Is China Catching Up? Technological Sophistication of Chinese Exports to European Union

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Vlčková, Jana
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Increases in the technological sophistication of some emerging economies, linked, in part, to shifts in the distribution of innovation activities from developed to emerging economies has attracted a lot of attention. Whether emerging economies will catch up with developed regions in terms of innovation and technology remains an open question. Various methods can be used to measure the technological capacity of an economy, though most suffer from a number of significant problems. In this paper, I present a relatively new measure of a country´s technological sophistication based upon the goods that it exports. The empirical analysis focuses on exports to the European Union over the period 1990-2009. Special attention is paid to China, which has made a huge progress in technology and innovations in the past years. Based on this analysis, China´s technological capabilities correspond with its income level and thus China does not seem to threaten the technological position of the EU yet.
Starting Page	36
Ending Page	54
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.18267/j.aop.368
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://www.vse.cz/polek/download.php?jnl=aop&lang=cz&pdf=368.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.18267/j.aop.368
Volume Number	2012
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article