Category Archives: Innovation

China’s indigenous innovation policies: no easy solutions

9 April 2010 – 7:07 pm

I have previously posted my views on China’s “indigenous innovation” policies.  Reading a recent WSJ blog post by China law specialist Stanley Lubman on the issue, I thought a further post would be timely. 
Mr Lubman’s post (including the links) is well worth reading for its observations on the step-up by the Chinese government to give priority to [...]

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Indigenous innovation: I’m over it already

15 February 2010 – 8:37 pm

Here’s a trivia question: what was Qian Xuesen famous for?
Qian was the father of China’s space program.  A brilliant Caltech- and MIT- educated aeronautical engineer, he left the US to return to China, disillusioned with growing American anti-communist feeling.  He is said to have eventually become committed to Chinese nationalistic causes, in some measure out of revenge against the [...]

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