Roads to innovation: Firm-level evidence from China
Although both infrastructure and innovation play an important role in fostering a country’s economic growth, discussion in the literature about how the two are connected is limited. This paper examines the impact of road density on firm innovation in China using a matched patent database at the firm...
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| author | Wang, Xu Zhang, Xiaobo Xie, Zhuan Huang, Yiping |
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| description | Although both infrastructure and innovation play an important role in fostering a country’s economic growth, discussion in the literature about how the two are connected is limited. This paper examines the impact of road density on firm innovation in China using a matched patent database at the firm level and road information at the city level. Regional variation in the difficulty of constructing roads is used as an instrumental variable to address the potential endogeneity problem of the road variable. The empirical results show that a 10 percent improvement in road density increases the average number of approved patents per firm by 0.71 percent. Road development spurs innovation by enlarging market size and facilitating knowledge spillover. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1482322025-11-06T06:55:36Z Roads to innovation: Firm-level evidence from China Wang, Xu Zhang, Xiaobo Xie, Zhuan Huang, Yiping innovation knowledge diffusion technology transfer transport capacity development infrastructure Although both infrastructure and innovation play an important role in fostering a country’s economic growth, discussion in the literature about how the two are connected is limited. This paper examines the impact of road density on firm innovation in China using a matched patent database at the firm level and road information at the city level. Regional variation in the difficulty of constructing roads is used as an instrumental variable to address the potential endogeneity problem of the road variable. The empirical results show that a 10 percent improvement in road density increases the average number of approved patents per firm by 0.71 percent. Road development spurs innovation by enlarging market size and facilitating knowledge spillover. 2016-07-08 2024-06-21T09:24:07Z 2024-06-21T09:24:07Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148232 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151356 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150410 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153558 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Wang, Xu; Zhang, Xiaobo; Xie, Zhuan; and Huang, Yiping. 2016. Roads to innovation: Firm-level evidence from China. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1542. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148232 |
| spellingShingle | innovation knowledge diffusion technology transfer transport capacity development infrastructure Wang, Xu Zhang, Xiaobo Xie, Zhuan Huang, Yiping Roads to innovation: Firm-level evidence from China |
| title | Roads to innovation: Firm-level evidence from China |
| title_full | Roads to innovation: Firm-level evidence from China |
| title_fullStr | Roads to innovation: Firm-level evidence from China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Roads to innovation: Firm-level evidence from China |
| title_short | Roads to innovation: Firm-level evidence from China |
| title_sort | roads to innovation firm level evidence from china |
| topic | innovation knowledge diffusion technology transfer transport capacity development infrastructure |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148232 |
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