Chinas Quest for Innovation
The transition from a catching-up style economy to an innovation-driven economy poses a major challenge for China. This book examines the major issues at stake, outlines developments in crucial business fields and industries, and discusses the roles of top-down politics and bottom-up entrepreneurship. It focuses in particular on the institutional foundations of innovation, arguing that successful innovation relies on the favourable interplay of business, politics, and society, and that comprehensive institutional and organizational changes will be required in China in order for innovation to succeed. Overall, the book assesses how far China will be able to depart from the Western paradigm of successful innovation regimes and create its own innovation system with Chinese characteristics.
Shuanping Dai is Junior Professor at the Institute for East Asian Studies and Mercator School of Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Markus Taube is Professor of East Asian Economic Studies/China in the Mercator School of Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Director of the IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen and Co-Director of the Confucius Institute Metropolis Ruhr, Germany.
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Chinas Quest for Innovation
Institutions and Ecosystems
Edited by Shuanping Dai and Markus Taube
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Contents
Shuanping Dai, Markus Taube
Wolfram Elsner
Shuanping Dai, Aleksandra Davydova, Yang Liu
Yanrui Wu
Iciar Dominguez Lacasa, Mahmood Shubbak
Jutta Gnther and Julia Sinnig
Marcus Conl
Jun Li
Jun Hou
Yongmin Wu and Yushan Ji
Shihao Zhou, Peter Ping Li, and Monsol Zhengyin Yang
Gang Liu and Jie Liu
Donglin Song, Changcheng Yao and Xin Fan
Marcus Conl is a postdoctoral research fellow at Jacobs University in Bremen and an associate researcher at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg. Before joining Jacobs, he was a research fellow at the IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen. He received a graduate degree in modern China studies and economics from the University of Cologne and a doctors degree in business administration from the Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen. His research interests include the structure and evolution of Chinese industries and innovation service sectors.
Shuanping Dai is Junior Professor at the Institute for East Asian Studies, and Mercator School of Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and is Adjunct Researcher at the Research Center for Chinas Public Sector Economy, Jilin University, and Visiting Professor at the Nankai University. He finished his doctoral study at the University of Bremen in 2013, and received both masters and bachelors degrees at Jilin University in 2008 and 2006 respectively. His research mainly focuses on the issues of understanding social-economic emerging properties from social interactions and human behavior perspectives. He is the author of the book Networks of Institutions (Routledge, 2015) and many journal articles.
Aleksandra Davydova is a Ph.D. student at the IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Her research interests lie in Chinese firms mergers and acquisitions, and innovation.
Iciar Dominguez Lacasa is Professor for Economics at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau and a research fellow at the Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW. Her research interests focus especially on the nexus of technology and institutional change. She also develops and implements sets of empirical indicators for tracing processes of technical change and institutional evolution.
Wolfram Elsner was Professor of Economics at University of Bremen, Germany (retired 2016). After having received his Ph.D. and venia legendi (Habilitation, 1985), he worked as head of a regional economic development agency, head of the Planning Division of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the State of Bremen, and the Bremen State Governments economic research institute, 1986 to 1995. He served as President of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), 20122014 and 20142016. He has affiliations at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, USA, and Jilin University, Changchun, PR China. He also has served on the boards of several journals; on different committees of several heterodox economic associations; edited and coedited a number of books and book series; published in numerous journals; was Managing Editor of the
