Foreword -- 1 Reshuffling the world -- 2 Chinese Culture, Strategy and Innovation.- 3 Innovation Policies in China, US and EU -- 4 Demystifying Strategic Innovation.- 5 Strategic Innovation in Practice -- 6 How to Win the Battle on Innovation?

The race for global innovation advantage -- Explaining U.S. economic decline -- Learning from the wrong masters: lessons from UK industrial decline -- Why do so many refuse to see U.S. structural economic decline? -- What are innovation and innovation policy and why are they important? --...

This important book delivers a critical wake-up call: a fierce global race for innovation advantage is under way, and while other nations are making support for technology and innovation a central tenet of their economic strategies and policies, America lacks a robust innovation policy. What...

What has happened to U.S. technological leadership? / Richard R. Nelson -- Japan's technological capabilities and its future / Sully Taylor and Kōzō Yamamura -- West German technology in the 1980s / Ernst-Jürgen Horn -- The impact of industrial structure and industrial policy on international...