Technological Superpower China by Jon Sigurdson, Jiang Jiang,... - 9781845423766

Technological Superpower ChinaAuthor(s): Jon Sigurdson, Jiang Jiang, Xinxin Kong, Yongzhong Wang, Yuli Tang\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781845423766, 978-1845423766\nSynopsis\nTechnological Superpower China explores how China is becoming a technological superpower within the global economy by integrating its national R programmes with the innovation systems of national and international corporations. Jon Sigurdson provides a thorough and comprehensive analysis of China's knowledge foundation in technology and R following its dynamic march forward in the early 1980s. The author describes how China's narrow window of opportunity - before becoming an ageing nation - has prompted the country to hurriedly mobilize resources in the hope of becoming a technological superpower within the next few decades. He examines how advances in higher education, human resources development, technology access .