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To avoid the middle-income trap, China’s leaders call for innovation to accelerate development in China. However, since it is not clear how innovation and (regional) development reinforce each other, there is no blueprint strategy for successful innovation capacity building throughout China. Due to resource scarcity in its “Western” regions, it is...
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... future imagination of innovation as a contributor to economic development is thus based on theory rather than local context. The narrative patterns thus link up to the argumentation pattern shown in Figure 4. ...
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... Chongqing an argumentation pattern emerges holding the national and local state jointly responsible for building an environment for S&T innovation (Figure 4). Chongqing, however, has basic resources, (for example, industry and universities) available for such a future endeavour, while the positive culturalisation of the "East" is used to argue that national government plans and theories are still necessary to enable the "alien" concept of innovation to take root in Chongqing. ...