Beyond catch-up: could China become the global innovation powerhouse? China's innovation progress and challenges from a holistic innovation perspective
Beyond catch-up: could China become the global innovation powerhouse? China's innovation progress and challenges from a holistic innovation perspective
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DOI：
10.1093/icc/dtab032
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发表时间：
2021-06-20
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2.5
通讯作者：
McKern, Bruce
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作者：
Chen, Jin;Yin, Ximing;McKern, Bruce
一个半世纪以来，全球科技领先地位已经从欧洲转移到美国，而学者们则认为，由于中国在过去四十年的非凡追赶，世界现在正在从美国转移到中国，其中以公共政策为导向的国家创新体系发展发挥着关键作用，可能为创新驱动发展特别是新兴市场提供另一种途径。尽管未来面临诸多挑战，中国仍将在未来几十年内占据全球创新领导地位。在本文中，我们提出了一个严肃但尚未探讨的问题：中国能否超越追赶，成为全球创新强国？具体而言，本文从使命导向型创新政策变革的原始理论范式——整体创新视角出发，从定性和定量两个方面批判性地回顾了中国与G7国家以及韩国和印度相比所取得的显着创新进步和主要驱动力，试图为中国创新赶超的最新研究提供全面、批判性的视角。我们进一步探讨中国迈向全球创新强国必须认真应对的五大挑战。最后，我们提出了一个以使命为导向的整体科技创新政策设计框架，帮助中国和其他新兴经济体在竞争激烈的世界中超越追赶者。本文为了解中国的创新进步和挑战提供了全新的整体视角，也为学者和公共机构为全球创新发展做出贡献提供了新颖的见解，以实现在后 COVID-19 大流行世界中实现全球可持续发展的共同目标。
Over the past century and a half, global technological leadership has shifted from Europe to the United States, while scholars argue that the world has seen that it is now shifting from the United States to China due to China's extraordinary catch-up in the past four decades, in which the public policy-oriented national innovation system development plays a critical role that might provide an alternative way for innovation-driven development especially for emerging markets. Even though encountering many challenges ahead, China is positioning itself to take over the global innovation leadership in the next few decades. Here in this article, we introduce a serious yet underexplored question: could China go beyond catch-up and become the global innovation powerhouse? Specifically, drawing from the holistic innovation perspective, which is an original theoretical paradigm for the mission-oriented innovation policy change, this article critically reviews, both qualitatively and quantitatively, China's remarkable innovation progress and main drivers in comparison with G7 countries plus South Korea and India, trying to provide a comprehensive and critical view of state-of-the-art research on China's innovation catch-up. We further explore the five major challenges that China must take seriously when marching toward the global innovation powerhouse. Finally, we propose a mission-oriented holistic STI policy design framework for both China and other emerging economies to go beyond catch-up in a competitive dynamic world. This article provides a new and holistic perspective to access China's innovation progress and challenges, also generates novel insights for scholars and public agencies to contribute to global innovation development, with a shared goal of achieving global sustainable development in the post-COVID-19 pandemic world.