R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … societal upgrade. The Chinese authorities have designed an innovation strategy to face new economic and social challenges. The … perspective explaining the legacy of the past in today's choices. In the second part, we illustrate China's catching up strategy …

, new energy vehicles (NEVs) within China. Design/methodology/approach The broad strategic approach of two sectors within … the NEV sector in China, the pure electric vehicle (EV) and the low-speed electric vehicle (LSEV) sectors, are compared … China's future industrial growth and is heavily supported. In contrast, the LSEV sector receives no support from central …

In competitive industries, intensive and repeated innovation is a recognized necessity (Wheelwright and Clark, 1992; Le … Masson et al., 2010). Literature on innovation (Utterback, 1994; Henderson & Clark, 1990) distinguishes Dominant Design … revisions (radical innovations) from local improvements (incremental innovations). Regarding the innovation process management …

Universidade de La Rochelle (ULR) (France) in relation to the activities of innovation management, intellectual property (IP) and …, the legislation on innovation of each country, patents deposited and cases of technology transfer are presented. The … regarding the legislation on innovation, from the databases of the universities, and from an interview with the director of the …

can they manage and drive collective innovation? We first build on a review of the literature to highlight common core … innovation intermediaries by exploring the properties of a form of intermediary for which the degree of unknown is a key …

during the1990s. For those firms, innovation management no longer deals with introducing radically and totally new products …

field that needs exploration by researchers in product and services innovation: the design of the sales process. Furthermore …

concepts, for other fields but design innovation. We propose the structuring of this model using the "design objects" notion …