The Technology Rise of China: From Imitation and Catching Up to Technological Leadership (CIMR Debates in Public Policy)
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Join us on 14th October for our event 'The Technological Rise of China: From Imitation and Catching Up to Technological Leadership', part of the CIMR debates in Public Policy series.
This debate is concerned with evaluating the last ten years’ progress in China’s innovative capacity. The point of departure from accepted understanding of the country’s innovative performance is the 2008 OECD Review of Innovation Policy CHINA. Based on evidence of recent developments and trends which have taken China to world technological leadership in key sectors. Klaus will ask, why is the Chinese national system of NIS so successful? Is USA right to be worried?
Speaker: Klaus Nielsen
Chair: Suma Athreye
Discussant: Xiaming Liu
Please sign up via the link above by 5pm 13th October. You will be sent the link to join on the morning of the event.
Biographies
Klaus Nielsen
Klaus Nielsen is Professor of Institutional Economics, Department of Management, Birkbeck University of London. His research interests include institutional economics and institutional theory, innovation and social capital, varieties of capitalism, China, sport economics and sport management. He teaches Innovation Systems, Networks and Social Capital; Research Methods; Business in the European Union. His current projects include: ‘The Chinese Economy between Confucianism and Modernity’; ‘Social Capital in Global Virtual Teams – the Film Visual Effects Industry’; and ‘Soft Budget Constraints in professional team sports.
Xiaming Liu
Xiaming Liu is Professor of International Business at Birkbeck. He received his BA and MPhil from Anhui and Fudan Universities respectively in China and PhD from Strathclyde University in the UK. Before joining Birkbeck as in 2006, he had held various academic and management positions both in China and the UK. Prior to becoming an academic, he had several years' agricultural and industrial experience in China. Professor Liu’s research interests include foreign direct investment and multinational enterprises, international knowledge transfer and spillover, emerging economies and economic growth and development. He has published widely, and his papers appear in the Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, International Business Review, Journal of Business Research and Long Range Planning.
Suma Athreye
Suma Athreye is Professor of Technology Strategy at Essex Business School and is a member of the Management Science and Entrepreneurship Group. Suma's main research interests lie in the fields of Economics of Innovation, International Business and Strategies of Emerging Market firms. She has published over 50 papers on these subjects and won several research grants for work in these areas. She sits on the Editorial Board of the academic journals Research Policy, Journal of International Business Studies, Industrial and Corporate Change, Perspectives on Globalisation and Development, International Journal of Technological Learning; Innovation and Development and Multinational Business Review. She also advises the UK intellectual Property Office on their research as member of their research advisory board.
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Alice Dowden