Chinese R&D: Naissance, Renaissance, or Mirage?
Journal
R & D Management
ISSN
0033-6807
ISSN-Digital
1467-9310
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2004-09-01
Author(s)
Abstract
China's re-emergence has been treated mostly from economic and political standpoints. This article integrates these perspectives with a review of China's modern history of research and development (R&D). It starts with a brief retrospective of China's efforts in science and technology before the reforms of 1978. It then discusses China's principle R&D issues in the early 1980s and the most significant results of 20 years of rapid industrialization. Based on this historic review and a wide literature analysis, some observations are made about China's R&D capabilities in the first years of the new millennium as well as what challenges may still lie ahead for China before becoming a leading source of scientific and technological innovation.
Language
English
Keywords
R&D
innovation
China
development
history
scenario
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Blackwell
Publisher place
Oxford
Volume
34
Number
4
Start page
349
End page
365
Pages
17
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
32346