Business Reconciling conflicting visions of ‘sustainable palm oil’ June 6, 2019 0 Written by Rory Padfield. Image Credit: Truck filled with oil palm by CIFOR/Flickr, licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Diplomatic relations between the EU and the major…
China All the Pieces Matter: China’s AI Dream April 9, 2018 0 Written by Jeffrey Ding. Marked by the State Council’s release of a national artificial intelligence development plan (AIDP) in July 2017, China’s aggressive pursuit of…
China Rapid but unsustainable: Science, Technology and Innovation capacity in China December 1, 2016 0 Written by Charlotte Martins and Chun-Yi Lee. In 2016, Cornell University published its latest Global Innovation Index (GII) report and ranked the PRC in the top…
Business Chinese technological development: Too open to the world and in the wrong way? June 2, 2015 0 Written by Andrew Tylecote. It is widely agreed that 'latecomer firms' (LCFs) and their economies should catch up through cooperation (‘linkage’) with what Mathews (2006) calls…
Development Will China become world’s largest research spender by 2020? December 4, 2014 0 Written by Yutao Sun and Cong Cao. China will outpace the United States as the leading research and development (R&D) spender by 2020, according to…
Development Good Science, Administrative Churn and Reform: Some Chinese Puzzles December 2, 2014 0 Written by Richard P. Suttmeier. In its latest “Science, Technology and Industry Outlook,” the OECD has again called attention to the rapid rise of China’s…
Development Chinese Research and Development: More D than R March 18, 2014 2 Written by Yutao Sun and Cong Cao. Funding for applied and basic research in China remains low despite huge amounts being spent. A recent OECD…
