Industry Transfer and Local Industry Matching Capability Building in Wuhan of China

摘要

This paper examines the nature of industry transfer from eastern region to central and western region. It employs a case study in Wuhan city in central China. Through analyzing the motives, backward linkage and forward linkage between industry transfer firms and local firms, we find that the knowledge flow within industry transfer firms is obvious but limited. According to the extent of technological learning by the local partners or local personnel and the impact of the technology transfer and learning on the host region, we can draw a conclusion that the record of industry transfer firms in transferring technology to the local economy has been very varied and technology flow in uneven. What's more, lack of the various know-how learning limited local industry matching capability building.