Creative China?

We employed both educational and occupational measures of talent to examine the relationships between talent, technology and regional economic performance in China, and to isolate the effects of tolerance, differing levels of consumer service amenities, and the location of universities on the distribution of talent. [...] Contrary to the findings of empirical studies on the developed economies, we found the relationships between the distribution of talent and technology and between the distribution of talent and regional economic performance in China to be weak. [...] Finally, it allows us to test for the effects of regional institutional and cultural factors – such as the level of amenities, the presence of universities, and tolerance – on the distribution of talent, technology and regional development. [...] The model also enables identification of regional cultural and institutional factors – namely, the presence of universities, level of amenities, and tolerance – as they affect the geographic distribution of talent in the first place. [...] The higher the Hukou index, the more open the region.