CHINAINNOVATION

"GLOBALIZATION, INSTITUTIONAL REFORM, AND CHINA’S INNOVATION CHALLENGES"

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'University of Nottingham proposes to host Dr. Yutao Sun of Dalian University of Technology for a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship. As one of the most promising Chinese scholars in the study of innovation, Dr. Sun will bring with him extensive research experience, project management capability, and especially expertise in the quantitative study of innovation, and apple the knowledge to the study of China’s innovation challenges under globalization and reform of China’s S&T system. He will work with Dr. Cong Cao, the scientist in charge who has recognized skills in macro-level innovation policy analysis and synthesis, to chart China’s innovation trajectory. The combination of the expertise will enable a first-class project that will enhance Nottingham’s research capacity in the study of China’s S&T enterprise and innovation policy, which in turn will help to advance Europe’s understanding of the rise of China as a technological power. The project will be of considerate interest to academics, policy-makers, and the business community in Europe. It will produce academic papers on globalization, innovation, and China’s national capability; position and role of China in the global innovation network; and China’s innovation trajectory for publication in leading international journals, which also will lead to a book. It will generate policy papers and briefs to be circulated in the European scholarly and policy communities. It also will provide recommendations to the Commission on EU’s future S&T cooperation with China, as such activities have been on the rise, and advise the EU–China Business Summit on the innovation-related issues that seem to be taking up an increasingly significant position. While at Nottingham, Dr. Sun will be exposed to advanced research in social science and management science so as to help advance his career in China upon finishing the fellowship. Collaboration between the two scholars and their institutions also will enter a new stage.'

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An EU project aimed to learn from Chinese concepts of innovation. The project interviewed Chinese academics, and analysed Chinese government research spending and industrial innovation policy, focusing on mega-engineering projects.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Europe has strong trade and other interests concerning China. China's solutions to its innovation challenges both inform and affect Europe.

The EU-funded 'Globalization, institutional reform, and China's innovation challenges' (CHINAINNOVATION) project investigated innovation in the Chinese sense. The team worked to document China's role in the global innovation network, and China's innovation trajectory. The two-year project concluded in October 2014.

Project researchers made five fieldwork trips to Beijing, Shanghai and two minor Chinese cities. The purpose was to interview scholars at various Chinese universities and other agencies. The topics concerned indigenous innovation and technology transfer from academia to industry. During the final two visits, the project interviewed beneficiaries of China's talent development programmes.

Other research elements involved analysis of Chinese government expenditure documents, aiming to demystify such spending. The team further examined, and attempted to integrate, inter- and intra-regional research collaborations with respect to patent applications. Both topics yielded journal papers.

Project work queried the concept of innovation policy network as applied at various levels in China. The study analysed 463 Chinese government policy documents created between 1980 and 2011. Lastly, the team documented the role of the state in industrial innovation, focusing on mega-engineering programmes. The work attempted to illustrate the conditions whereby the state initiates such involvement.

The CHINAINNOVATION project examined Chinese innovation and knowledge transfer, and penetrated the mystery surrounding government spending on such themes. The work yielded recommendations for Europe.