Journal of Geographical Sciences

XU Jili, Anthony G.O. YEH, George C.S. LIN, LIU Xingjian, YANG Fan Fiona, LUO Zixin

地理学报(英文版), 2025, 35(2): 382-408. DOI: 10.1007/s11442-025-2327-2

Hong Kong Labor force	Percentage (%)	Hong Kong Technology	Percentage (%)	Hong Kong Producer service	Percentage (%)
Never hired	51.2	Never used	67.2	Never bought	47.1
Once hired but no longer hired	11.0	Once used but no longer used	6.6	Once bought but no longer bought	13.5
Start hiring from last year	1.4	Start using from last year	1.1	Start buying from last year	1.9
Keep hiring for years	36.4	Keep using for years	25.1	Keep buying for years	37.5

Table 3 Actual use of technological innovation elements of Hong Kong by high-tech firms in the Pearl River Delta

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Figure 1 The research framework of the use of technological innovation functions and elements in Hong Kong by high-technology firms with heterogeneous attributes in the Pearl River Delta and influencing factors
Table 1 Basic information of firms surveyed
Figure 2 Evaluation of technological innovation functions and elements from Hong Kong by high-technology industrial firms in the Pearl River Delta
Table 2 Evaluation of the importance of Hong Kong’s technological innovation functions and elements by high-technology firms with heterogenous socioeconomic attributes in the Pearl River Delta
Table 4 Influence of socio-economic attributes of high-tech industrial firms in the Pearl River Delta on their use of technological innovation elements from Hong Kong
Table 5 Reasons for using and not using Hong Kong’s technological innovation elements by high-technology firms in the Pearl River Delta
Figure 3 Influencing factors of the use of technological innovation elements from Hong Kong by high-tech industrial firms in the Pearl River Delta