China's manufacturing and innovation capabilities are directly related. Availability of complementary resources in rapid prototyping, test production and components and the ability to deploy innovations at scale increasingly leads high-technology firms, including startups, to consider China as a...

Global Value Chains (GVC) are a channel for upgrading firm capabilities. Over the last four decades, China has rapidly grown as a result of participation in GVCs. It has become central to global production networks in many industries, accelerating the process of global diffusion of...

Research since the 1980s has considered the economic and innovation impacts of technology standards policies. This paper extends the research on the impact of standardization policies to consider how the policies themselves, governing how the standards are created, determine standards' impact on...