China's Path to Innovation

A rigorous examination of the motivations, sources, obstacles to and consequences of China's drive to become a leading innovative nation.

Xiaolan Fu (Author)

9781107625235, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 October 2016

454 pages, 63 b/w illus. 55 tables
23 x 15.3 x 2.4 cm, 0.67 kg

'… to date there are few research monographs that go beyond picking out striking cases of innovative companies [in China]. We clearly also need systematic analyses of China's growing innovative capacity. For this reason, Xiaolan Fu's … China's Path to Innovation is a welcome addition to the literature … I recommend that any scholar interested in China's innovation capacity read [this book].' Johann Peter Murmann, economic-evolution.net

Over the past three decades, China has experienced rapid economic growth and a fascinating transformation of its industry. However, much of this success is the result of industrial imitation, and China's continuing success now relies heavily on its ability to strengthen its indigenous innovation capability. In this book, Xiaolan Fu investigates how China can develop a strategy of compressed development to emerge as a leading innovative nation. The book draws on quantitative and qualitative research that includes cross-country, cross-province and cross-firm analysis. Large multi-level panel datasets, unique survey databases, and in-depth industry case studies are explored. Different theoretical approaches are also used to examine the motivations, obstacles and consequences of China's innovation with a wider discussion around what other countries can learn from China's experience. This book will appeal to scholars and policy-makers working in fields such as innovation policy, technology management, development and international economics, and China studies.

Preface
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Innovation in China since the reforms: an overview
Part I. International Knowledge Transfer and Technological Take-off: 3. Foreign direct investment, absorptive capacity and innovation in Chinese regions
4. Processing trade, FDI and international competitiveness of the Chinese high-technology industries
5. Indigenous and foreign innovation efforts and technological upgrading in China
Part II. Development of Indigenous Innovation Capacity and Catch-up
6. The role of state policy in shaping innovation practices: the case of open innovation in China
7. Open innovation as a response to constraints and resources
8. The dual role of universities in industrial innovation: comparing China and the UK
9. Technological learning, tacit knowledge acquisition and industrial upgrading: the Chinese optical fibre and cable industry
10. Leapfrogging in green technology: the solar-PV industry in China and India
Part III. Towards a Global Innovation Leader: 11. Internationalisation, reverse learning and capabilities upgrading: the case of Huawei and ZTE
12. International collaboration and radical innovation
13. Innovation efficiency and the cross-country gaps in innovation
14. Incentives, institutions and national innovation performances
15. Conclusions: open national innovation system and China's path to innovation
References
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Subject Areas: International business [KJK], Entrepreneurship [KJH], International economics [KCL]