A Possible Key to China’s Rise as a Tech Innovator
April 21, 2017
4/19/17 – In Issues recently, a scholar at a major university in China described how his nation had tailored itself into a technocracy and sketched some possible benefits. One possible outcome is China’s emergence as a source of new commercial technology, as evidenced by a new study (summarized here) finding that China recently surpassed the United States as the biggest spender in translating new knowledge from basic and applied research into commercial products and manufacturing processes.