Science And Technology Policy And Innovation In China
This course analyzes the development of science and technology policy in China since the onset of the reform and open policy launched under Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s. It places special emphasis on the post-2000 period when China announced its goal of re-orienting the PRC economy away from emphasis on assembly-type manufacturing (which is labor-intensive and resource consuming–sometimes called “the factory to the world model”) and towards becoming an innovation driven economy. The course charts the changing emphasis of Chinese policies and reforms, including the new emphasis on “indigenous innovation” since 2005 and the cultivation and utilization of high-level talent since 2003—with an eye towards understanding China’s increasingly important role in shaping the structure and operation of the global innovation system in the 21st century.