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| EVOLVING GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK OF REGIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SHENZHEN AND DONGGUAN |
| FU Wen-ying1, Javier Revilla Diez2, Daniel Schiller3 |
1. School of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China;
2. Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography, Leibniz University of Hannover, Hannover 30167, Germany;
3. Lower Saxony Institute of Economic Research, Hannover 30175, Germany |
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Abstract Governance constitutes elementary supportive infrastructure for regional innovation systems,as they are able to facilitate interaction and cooperation.It consists of institutions and organizations that shape the incentives for economic action,thus not limited to governments,but includes privately established and enforced governance mechanisms explicitly.In this paper,we show how the formation of regional innovation system has unfolded under two distinct institutional designs and governance modalities.The results find out that Shenzhen has developed interactive nature of innovation activities in its diversified and highly competitive business environment,while innovation activities in Dongguan are rigorously controlled by global lead firms through hierarchical production chains.On the basis of the empirical finding,a conceptual framework was constructed to explain the evolving logic of governance framework that is vital to regional innovation.The paper concludes that the dirigiste globalized production system outperforms the bottom-up globalized production system owing to its first-mover institutional advantage and endowment in organizational competence,thus more smoothly driving the regions with weak industrial base to a regional innovation system with its simultaneous evolution to network governance.Finally,the future path for regional upgrading with divergent governance is pointed out,especially for bottom-up governance,incentive frameworks should be put in place to avoid any negative lock-in effects associated with local vested interests.
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Received: 12 January 2013
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2013, Vol. 28 
