Innovation and China’s Global Emergence

edited by Erik Baark, Bert Hofman, and Jiwei Qian

ISBN: 978-981-325-148-9

published August 2021

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List of Tables

Table 3.1: Typology of Aggressive Technology Transfer Policies in China

Table 3.2: Aspects of China’s IPR Regime Currently Making it Friendlier than the IPR Regimes in Prominent Rich Nations to IPR-intensive Businesses

Table 5.1: China’s Talent-Attracting Programmes and the Number of Returnees Benefited, 1994–2018

Table 5.2: Chinese Returnees Who Sought Certification for Their Foreign PhD Degrees, 2008–14

Table 5.3: Disciplines in which Chinese Returnees Received Their Foreign PhD Degrees, 2008–14

Table 7.1: Randomly Selected Collaboration Projects with their Attributes (from C-Tech Global Collaboration Database)

Table 7.2: Difference between Foreign and Domestic Collaboration: Logit Regression Results

Table 8.1: Industrial Policy Summary

Table 8.2: Explaining Investment Growth, 2012–15

Table 8.3: Explaining Investment Growth, 2015–17

Table 9.1: Timeline for Achieving MIC 2025 Goals

Table 9.2: Tsinghua Holdings’ Sino-Foreign Partnerships

Table 9.3: Selected Intangible Asset-Focused Acquisitions of Overseas Assets by Chinese Firms

Table 10.1: Digital Infrastructure in China

Table 10.2: The Investment and Financing Services Provided by the Hangzhou Government

Table 10.3: The Investment and Financing Services Provided by the Shenzhen Government

Table 10.4: The Top Five Companies in the Chinese Public Cloud Computing Market

Table 11.1: Tasks Performed by Chinese Firms for the iPhone 3G and iPhone X

Table 11.2: Foreign Technology and Suppliers of the OPPO R11s

Table 11.3: Foreign Technology and Suppliers of the Xiaomi MIX 2

Table 11.4: Technology and Suppliers of the Huawei P30 Pro

List of Figures

Figure 2.1: Kuznets “Inverted U” Curve: Technology Policy Conflict vs. Technology Distance

Figure 5.1: Share of High-impact Publications by Returnees above Chinese Average

Figure 5.2: Numbers of Mobile Chinese Scientists in China, the EU and US

Figure 7.1: Knowledge Flows Network Embedded in a Regular IRP Project

Figure 8.1: First-digit Sector Investment Shares 2015 and Growth Rates (2012–15, 2015–17)

Figure 8.2: Second-digit Industrial Sector Investment Shares 2015 and Growth Rates (2012–15, 2015–17)

Figure 8.3: Central vs. Local Shares in “Urban” Investment, 2015 (%)

Figure 8.4: Sources of Investment Funding (shares in total in %)

Figure 8.5: Investment Shares by Ownership, “Urban” Investment, 2003–17 (%)

Figure 8.6: Investment (except by Rural Households) by Sector and Ownership, 2015 (%)

Figure 9.1: Charges for the Use of Intellectual Property, Payments (BoP, current US$)

Figure 9.2: Charges for the Use of Intellectual Property, Receipts (BoP, current US$)

Figure 9.3: Patent Grants under MIC 2025 Technology Categories

Figure 9.4: OECD FDI Regulatory Restrictiveness Index: Selected Economies

Figure 10.1: The Distribution of Ownership of Industrial Enterprises in Shenzhen between 2000 and 2017

Figure 10.2: The Distribution of Ownership of Industrial Enterprises in Hangzhou between 2000 and 2017