Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1445:
Do Active Innovation Policies Matter? – Findings from a Survey on the Hong Kong Electronics SMEs
Wan-Hsin LIU
Abstract: Since 1997 the Hong Kong (HK) government has markedly
changed its role from being a mere institution provider to being an active
innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation
policies that focus especially on creating new funding opportunities and
establishing several R&D centres to facilitate information flow and
innovation cooperation between universities and industries. One of the
industries in which it has been especially active is the electronics
industry. Thus this study looks at the electronics industry to examine,
using data collected from a questionnaire survey on the HK electronics
SMEs, whether these policies have positively affected innovation intensity
in HK. The survey findings indicate that there has been an increase in
innovation activities in HK, but also that neither the R&D centres nor the
universities have played important roles as innovation sources or
innovation partners for the HK electronics SMEs. Rather, the main way
through which universities and R&D centres support the HK electronics SMEs’
innovation activities seems to be the provision of a highly-qualified
labour-force transmitting academic knowledge to companies
Keywords: electronics, innovation, innovation policy, regional survey, Hong Kong, China; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: D21,; L60,; O31,; O33,; O38,; R10; (follow links to similar papers)
39 pages, September 2008
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