Feb 8, 2023
China’s Innovation System: Driving or Translating Global Technological Trends?
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
- Lise Meitner Research Group
- Cao Cong (University of Nottingham)
China’s achievement of the status as a rising global power in science, technology, and innovation represents the integration and synergy of its indigenous efforts and its taking advantage of the benefits offered by globalization. Such unique and exceptional features of the science and technology system have enabled China to embark on a distinct trajectory in science, technology, and innovation, as well as highlighting the challenges that the country has been facing in this regard, which have become more acute in light of its extraordinary characteristics of path dependence and the changing international environment.
Biography
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Cong CaoCong Cao is a professor in innovation studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. His research focuses on science, technology, and innovation in China, including scientific elite; human resources in science and technology; research, innovation, and entrepreneurship in nanotechnology and biotechnology; and the governance of the science and technology system. He is the author or co-author of four books and dozens of papers in leading international journals and edited volumes. His research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, European Union’s Framework Program 7, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, among other funders.
Contact and Registration
Please register at the following link:
https://zoom.us/j/95070450671?pwd=ME03aXhkclBuY1dsMms1a04vN1IzZz09
This event is part of the LMRG & BCCN Lecture Series "China—The New Science Superpower?" For further information about the series, specific sessions, or questions concerning registration, please contact office-ahlers@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
China’s push to become a leading science power is unprecedented in its speed, scope and, arguably, success. Reactions to China’s rise in global science are dichotomous: some anticipate that science made in China may come to dominate global academia while others deem it impossible to achieve scientific leadership under an authoritarian regime. A focus on rankings and statistics alone is apparently not enough to grasp the origins, characteristics, and the possible futures of China as a science superpower.
This monthly lecture series will bring together fresh empirical insights and intriguing theoretical reflections about the development of the science system in the People’s Republic of China and its global integration. Representing a variety of social science perspectives, our guest speakers will explore the evolution of Chinese science policy, interactions of societal norms and values and academia in the PRC, factors that enable or constrain scientific innovation, the global reception of scientific output and investment from China, the securitization of international collaboration, and much more.
