China’s Development of an Innovation-driven Economy-An Intermediate Assessment

作     者：Rainer Frietsch Henning Kroll Koen Jonkers 

作者机构：Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation ResearchKarlsruhe 76139Germany Institutes of Science and DevelopmentChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100190China Leibniz UniversityHannover 30167Germany Joint Research CentreEuropean CommissionBrussel 1050Belgium 

出 版 物：《Innovation and Development Policy》 (创新与发展政策(英文))

年 卷 期：2019年第1卷第2期

页      面：85-103页

学科分类：02[经济学] 0201[经济学-理论经济学] 020105[经济学-世界经济] 

基　　金：funded by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission as background in preparation of a JRC report on China’s industrial modernization(Preziosi et al 2019) 

主　　题：innovation-driven China’s development intermediate assessment 

摘      要：China’s economic, technological and scientific achievements of the past years and decades are impressive. However, the country’s policy makers have even higher aspirations and therefore set up a number of policies to tackle the threat of the so-called middle-income-trap. This paper describes and discusses some of these policies, of which the Innovation-Driven Economy Development Strategy is seen as the backbone of current Chinese STI policy. The level of achievements as well as the expected developments is put into perspective by selected empirical data. We conclude that China’s industry will further improve its competitiveness in several sectors in the coming years. Western representatives need to wave good-bye to the ideas that China assimilates. At the same time, the era of the land of gold when China provides the world with low-cost products and buys high-tech goods from Western companies is over. However, if China intends to become a reputable member of the international STI community, the country should develop actively the nowadays often-demanded ‘level-playing field’. This would not only mean that China needs to accept and implement internationally agreed rules and institutions. It would also mean vice versa that Westerners accept the differences in the systems, the Chinese Way as well as the Chinese ‘market economy’, which is not meant to be the same like in Europe or North America.