...Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau China wants to become a science, technology, and manufacturing superpower by upgrading and modernizing its industrial base and concentrating the nation’s innovation resources around strategic priorities. However, it is difficult for the state to integrate innovation resources...

... researchers, technology providers, and firms. This program aims to re-engineer the innovation chain—and with it, the entire industrial economy. The government intervenes by creating new organizations, remaking incentives of existing organizations, and serving as a compulsory matchmaker between different...

... strategy must contend with an erosion of global interdependencies. This policy brief examines three key elements of China’s response: an infrastructure megaproject for computing power, a “whole-of-nation” approach to developing AI foundation models, and efforts to forge connections with foreign innovation...

...Marcus Conlé In pursuit of technological development, China has created new organizations to promote innovation. This brief examines New Research and Development Institutes (NRDIs), which are designed to foster knowledge transfer to industry. NRDIs were pioneered in Guangdong province in the 1990s...

...Michael Laha Chinese President Xi Jinping has advocated for scientific and technological self-reliance amid increasing global tensions over emerging technologies. So far though, reforms to China’s innovation ecosystem have fallen short of the goal of developing domestic versions of many...

... of California 2024 industry innovation technology markets finance The dangers of ignoring political signals has become even more clear for investors following Beijing’s recent tech rectification campaign. 12 Since November 2020, China’s largest tech companies have been under intense...

...Jessica C. Teets Will Xi Jinping's increasingly authoritarian rule stifle innovation by local officials, which has been instrumental in the Chinese communist regime's resilience and economic success? Red Swan: How Unorthodox Policy Making Facilitated China's Rise , by Sebastian Heilmann...

... of innovation? © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California Barry eichengreen mediocre global economy transitory problems economies secular stagnations production GDP potential innovation decline declining 23 Which view is correct...

... innovation free market Industrial Revolution computer knowledge economy property rights robots John Maynard Keynes 291 If we know anything about capitalism, it is that it is flexible. Some commentators have drawn the inevitable parallel with software that is being constantly upgraded. Indeed...

...Deirdre Nansen McCloskey Capitalism has raised living standards worldwide by a thousandfold. Societies that respect innovation and entrepreneurship can expect more of the same. © 2013 Current History. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California Deirdre Nansen...

... reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California Joshua Lustig Loren Graham Russia technology innovation science development patent law business The arts and sciences somehow flourished in Russia despite centuries of autocracy, yet the country has a sorry record of channel...

... How is the world doing? A report card on the past year's major trends. politics economy security social science technology innovation Current History s GLOBAL PROGRESS REPORT Current History invited its contributing editors a group of 21 international scholars to grade the global...