| Since the economic reform and opening-up started from 1978, China's economy has been growing at a sustainable pace for more than 20 years, accompanied by the obvious gaps between regional growth levels. Owing to the privilege of its geographic position, Fujian Province has quickly emerged as one of the most economic developed provinces in China, leaving its inferior economy and technology history behind. Issues where the development drive stemmed from and how to maintain such growing level and enhance the quality of growth interested the author and, therefore, became the primary focuses of this doctorial research thesis.Basing its analysis on the theories on economic growth, referring to the so called"new growth theory"and"institutioual innovation theory"that satisfactorily explain issues concerning China's regional economic development, this research paper tentatively applied a variety of principles and methodologies, including the endogenous views on growth, the technical overlaps, the indicatory system of compete abilities, the productivity model, and the regional innovation system, etc.. The research observed, analyzed, and calculated the impacts that technology advances, as new factors of productivity, have had on Fujian Province's economic growth progress since the reform and opening-up, measured and compared the contributions of different productive factors to economic growth and the curve of the growth, and discussed the pattern, rationale, and features with which the technological advances have influenced Fujian Province's economic growth. This research is of distinctive practicability and is a positive research of applying growth theories into the relationship between technological progress and economic growth.By analyzing the significant functions of factors that have contributed to Fujian Province's economic boom, including the opening policy, foreign capital investment, international trade, technical overlaps, institutioual innovation, the author discovered that it was the technology overlaps that represent the predominant form of technological progress in Fujian's economy growing process, revealed that the waytechnological advances impact economic growth is changing tremendously, and predicted the distinct characteristics of the future regional economic growth, that the technological progress and innovation will be the engine of economic growth and the establishment of regional innovation system will stands as the key to economic growth.The research drew the following conclusions:①There is a correspondent relationship between Fujian Province's growth process and the national government policies and the regional characters.②The relative advantages of Fujian's economic growth lay in the policy resource and particular regional privileges appropriate for its specific development stage.③The technological overlaps and learning are the major form of technological progress during Fujian's growing.④The dynamic flows of the factors of technological progress are the superior advances Fujian has in the technological competitiveness.⑤For Fujian's growth, technological progress contributes nearly half of it, investments in physical capital and human capital still have important roles.⑥Compared to developed regions in China, Fujian's investment in sci-technology remains relatively low, along with the lack of potentials for innovation and a trend of development slowing-down.⑦The knowledge creativity is the weakness of Fujian in comprehensive innovation activities.According to the findings of this research, the following policy suggestions were presented:①It shall be an important strategic alternative for Fujian's economic development to establish an innovative region.②The systematical framework of the innovative region shall be brought forward to guarantee the establishment of the innovative region with necessary policies and regulations.③The investment in sci-technology shall be magnified, strengthening the development of self-invented and patent-owned products and industrial upgrade.④The system of technology diffusion shall be further supplemented at the policy aspect to accelerate the process of technology transferring.⑤The strategy of technology follow-ups shall be implemented in order to obtain new effective technological advances throughinternational trade and cooperation.⑥The innovation mass belt shall be created to produce the relative advantages for the future.⑦The intellectual property motivation system shall be constituted.⑧Human capital shall be exerted to the maximum to function as the number one resource. |
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