Firms claim innovation and training key to their success

Through innovation the Shanghai Pudong Software Park, known as SPSP, is on the way to industrial agglomeration, enterprise incubation, information fusion and creation of cloud platforms.

"These are steps the park has taken to carry out its industry transformation strategy," said a SPSP Co Ltd manager in charge of innovation, who asked not to be identified.

He said an example was the SAP China Institute, which won three times as many patents in 2013 than in 2012, thanks to its innovation efforts.