This special issue on innovation in China is based on selected papers presented at the European Academy of Management (EURAM) conferences in 2010 and 2011. It follows the first collection of papers, chosen from papers presented at the EURAM conferences in Lubljana in 2008 and Liverpool in 2009 (Assimakopoulos, 2010). This special issue of Prometheus brings together five research papers that discuss empirical findings across multiple levels of analysis and organisational contexts, spanning industrial sectors, large state-owned enterprises, start-ups and high technology clusters in developed and less developed regions throughout mainland China. The research methodologies for acquiring empirical data vary from quantitative surveys to exploratory case studies based solely on semi-structured interviews and qualitative data. All this empirical research was presented and critically discussed in early draft form in the EURAM conferences in Rome in 2010 and Tallinn in 2011. Further rounds of peer review and empirical analysis resulted in the final form of this set of papers in the summer of 2011 for publication here.
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