Professor Xiaolan Fu, Director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD) at the University of Oxford, is pleased to announce the launch of an important new book “The Oxford Handbook of China Innovation” at an online event co-organised by the TMCD and Research Center of Technological Innovation at Tsinghua University at 9:00-10:30 am (UK time) on Sunday, 10th July 2022. The handbook will be presented by Professor Xiaolan Fu, Professor Bruce McKern (University of Technology - Sydney, CEIBS and Stanford University), and Professor Jin Chen (Tsinghua University).

To join the book launch event, please click here. The book launch event will be one session at the 19th International Schumpeterian Society (ISS) annual conference themed “Technological Revolution and New Driving Forces for Global Sustainable Development”, which will be held in Changsha, P. R. China this year. You could find more about the ISS annual conference here. The preliminary programme is here. Previous conference information here.

This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of China's development and includes contributions from more than sixty experts worldwide. It provides an in-depth and broad understanding of China's path to innovation leadership. It focuses on innovation as the core of China's industrial capabilities and utilizes viewpoints of international scholars as well as Chinese academics and senior advisors to policy makers.

The chapters include a discussion of the capabilities and strategies of world-class Chinese innovators, together with emerging issues such as environmental remediation, green energy, digital innovation, open innovation, mass innovation, and China’s future science and technology policy. As China emerges as a contender for global leadership in many fields, this handbook provides a foundation for informed conjecture regarding the challenges ahead.

For more information about the book, please click here.