China's propensity for innovation in the 21st century : identifying indicators of future outcomes / Steven W. Popper, Marjory S. Blumenthal, Eugeniu Han, Sale Lilly, Lyle J. Morris, Caroline S. Wagner, Christopher A. Eusebi, Brian Carlson, Alice Shih.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Popper, Steven W., 1953- author.

Contributor:

Blumenthal, Marjory S.

Han, Eugeniu.

Lilly, Sale.

Morris, Lyle J.

Wagner, Caroline S.

Eusebi, Christopher A.

Carlson, Brian.

Shih, Alice.

Acquisition and Technology Policy Center.

Rand Corporation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--Economic aspects--China.

Technological innovations.

Technological innovations--Economic aspects.

China.

Technological innovations--China--21st century.

Physical Description:

xxii, 145 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, CA : RAND, [2020]

Summary:

The authors examine the propensity within China's innovation system to realize its potential as an innovating nation: What is the balance of systemic forces that incline toward seeing that the innovation assets China possesses lead to innovation outcomes? They lay out a conceptual framework for capturing the major activities, interactions, and flows that give rise to technological innovations. They use this framework to place within one matrix salient elements that appear in the global literature on innovation; the literature on innovation in China and on its political, economic, and social systems; the results from three case studies prepared for this report (pharmaceuticals, artificial intelligence, and distributed ledger technology); and three different inquiries into the nature and measurement of network organization. They then provide a determination of which cells in the matrix that result from placing these elements into the innovation framework might be most useful as windows into those aspects of China's innovation system dynamics that might be expected to affect innovation propensity and observed innovation outcomes. Measures are developed for these elements with an emphasis more on what the authors would like to know as opposed to what information might be most readily available presently. Thirteen of these indicators are then selected to form a preliminary "dashboard" of candidate indicators for China's propensity toward future innovation. These are offered not as final findings but rather as a first set of candidates to be assessed and refined in later empirical analyses. The authors also offer sample proxies for these draft indicators.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Capturing Lightning in a Bottle: Innovation and State Power

ch. Two The Nature of Innovation and the Location of Innovative Activity

What Is Innovation

and Why Should We Care?

National and Regional Innovation Systems

All Innovation Is Local

Networks and Innovation

Politics and Innovation: Challenge and Response

A Framework for Evaluating Forces for Innovation

ch. Three The Road Toward the Chinese Century

Institutions: Formal and Informal

Policies

Investment in R&D

R&D, Knowledge, and Skill Building

Identifying Factors in the Innovation Activity Framework

ch. Four Gleaning from Case Studies of Sectoral Innovation

Artificial Intelligence: Driving to the Future's Leading Edge

Pharmaceuticals: Regional Interests and Industry Structure

Blockchain Technology: Where Did Everybody Go?

Factors in the Innovation Activity Framework

ch. Five Quantitative and Digital Evidence of Networks in China

Bibliometric Analysis of China's Position in Networks of Science

Patent Applications Citations: Possible Marker for Implicit Innovation Networks

Picking Up the Trail: Evidence of Networks in the Gray Literature

ch. Six Measures and Indicators of China's Innovation Propensity

Addressing the Problem of Measurement

Candidate Indicators for China's Innovation Propensity

ch. Seven Innovation Propensity: Looking Toward the Future

APPENDIXES

A. Case Study: China and Artificial Intelligence

B. Case Study: China and Pharmaceutical Products

C. Bibliometric Measurement of Scientific Knowledge Networks.

Notes:

"RAND National Security Research Division."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-143).

ISBN:

1977405967

9781977405968

OCLC:

1228860048