China as an innovation nation / edited by Yu Zhou, William Lazonick, and Yifei Sun.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zhou, Yu, 1965 April 13-

Lazonick, William.

Sun, Yifei

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--China.

Technological innovations.

Technological innovations--Government policy.

China.

Technological innovations--Government policy--China.

High technology industries--China.

High technology industries.

China--Economic conditions--2000-.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

xi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This volume assesses China's transition to innovation-nation status in terms of social conditions, industry characteristics, and economic impacts over the past three decades, while also providing insights into future developments. Defining innovation as the process that generates a higher quality, lower cost product than was previously available, the introductory chapter conceptualizes the theory an innovation nation and the lessons from Japan and United States. It outlines the key governance, employment, and investment institutions that China must build for such a transition to occur, and examines China's challenges and strategies to innovate in the era of global production systems. Two succeeding chapters explain the evolving roles of the Chinese state in innovation and the new landscape of venture capital finance. The remaining chapters provide studies of major industries, which contain analyses of the evolving roles of investment by government agencies and business interest in the development process. Included in these studies are traditional industries such as mechanical engineering, railroads, and automobiles; rapidly evolving and internationally highly integrated industries such as information-and-communication-technology (ICT); and newly emerging sectors such as wind and solar energy. Written by leading academics in the field, studies in this volume reveal Chinese innovation as diverse across industries and enterprises and fluid overtime. In each sector, we observe continued co-evolution of state policy, market demand, and technology development. The strategies and structures of individual companies and industrial ecosystems are changing rapidly. The sum total of the studies is a great step forward in our understanding of the industrial foundations and institutional conditions of China's attempt to become an innovation nation. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: China's Transformation into Innovation-Nation / William Lazonick, Yu Zhou, and Yifei Sun

Evolution of Chinese State Policies on Innovation / Yu Zhou and Xielin Liu

Venture Capital in China / Jun Zhang

China's Mechanical Engineering Industry: Offering the Potential for Indigenous Innovation? / Ingo Liefner and Gang Zeng

Chinese Indigenous Innovation in the Car Sector: Being Integrated or Being the Integrator / Kaidong Feng

High Speed Rail Development in China - A Case Study of State-guided Technology Transfer / Rongfang (Rachel) Liu, Liu (Willow) Lv, and Zhaodong (Tony) Huang

State, Market, and Business Enterprise: Development of the Chinese Integrated Circuit Foundries / Yin Li

Catching up and Developing Innovation Capabilities in China's Telecommunication Equipment Industry / Peilei Fan and Xudong Gao

9 State, Multinational Corporations, Returnees, and Development of China's Integrated Circuit (IC) Design Industry / Yifei Sun, Zi Xue, and Debin Du

The Evolution of China's Mobile Phone Industry and Good-enough Innovation / Shin-Horng Chen and Pei-Chang Wen

The Development of China's Wind Power Technology Sector: Characterizing National Policy Support, Technology Acquisition and Technological Learning / Joanna I. Lewis

The Rise of the Chinese Solar Photovoltaic Industry: Firms, Governments, and Global Competition / Matthew Hopkins and Yin Li.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

019875356X

9780198753568

OCLC:

920730368