Suzhou Industrial Park

This book examines how innovation and sustainability strategies implemented in Suzhou Industrial Park drive and influence the regional long-term economic growth. In the process of implementing export-led growth industrial parks located in various regions in China have become very vital players among which Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) has now developed as a leading and model industrial park in China since its inauguration in 1994 as a result of the governmental collaboration between China and Singapore.   The history of the SIP is the history of China's new economy; as China has moved up the supply chain Suzhou Industrial Park has now become an industrial park focusing more on high-tech innovation/entrepreneurship and environmental sustainability with an ecological perspective. This book will provide a fascinating window into China's reform and opening for China scholars economists and urban geographers.?