China as an Innovation Nation
Yu Zhou, William Lazonick, and Yifei Sun
Abstract
Advances in technology are critical for the transformation of a nation from a relatively low-wage to a relatively high-wage economy. Leading national economies are invariably global leaders in technology. In the last three decades, China has changed from one of the most impoverished countries on the planet to becoming the world largest economy with hundreds of millions of people being pulled out of poverty. Yet the question of China’s progress toward global technological leadership remains an open and hotly debated subject. Each chapter of this book focuses one high-tech industry exploring que ... More
Advances in technology are critical for the transformation of a nation from a relatively low-wage to a relatively high-wage economy. Leading national economies are invariably global leaders in technology. In the last three decades, China has changed from one of the most impoverished countries on the planet to becoming the world largest economy with hundreds of millions of people being pulled out of poverty. Yet the question of China’s progress toward global technological leadership remains an open and hotly debated subject. Each chapter of this book focuses one high-tech industry exploring questions concerning technological trajectories and innovative capacities, historical evolution of the structures of industrial organization, international technology transfer, the role of the state, product-market conditions, the dynamic interaction of supply and demand, global competition, national policies, and regional industrial eco-systems. Taken together, these chapters provide the most complete picture to date of China’s technological development, with insights into the dynamics of innovative enterprise, and the roles of the state and globalization in supporting the development process.
Keywords:
innovation,
indigenous innovation,
the state,
global competition,
technological transfer,
industrial eco-system,
R&D capacity,
finance,
techno-nationalism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198753568 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2016 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198753568.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Yu Zhou, editor
Professor of Geography, Vassar College
William Lazonick, editor
Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Yifei Sun, editor
Professor of Geography, California State University
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