Many have increasingly questioned if and how Chinese policy has evolved or will evolve to ensure that the country's development is not only focused on immediate economic growth, but also economically, socially and environmentally sustainable. This paper addresses this question by tracing key...

While patent filings in China have been exploding in recent years, analysis based on a variety of metrics shows that this increase has not necessarily translated into a ‘proportionate' rise in patent quality. Further, based on projections quantifying “highest quality” patents in China,...

Western firms are recognizing that digitization is transforming the way business is conducted in China, the world's largest online market, just as much if not more than in their home markets. However, the importance of what we call the “Relational Digital Ecosystem” – a fundamental...

This article investigates the optimality of laws in the United Kingdom (UK) and China governing employees' rights to intellectual property (IP) and the rewards employers provide to employees for IP they create. A basic three-part analytical framework is developed regarding how an inappropriately...

Strategic government decisions concerning how an economy can transition from traditional trade specialization and reliance on imitation of imported knowledge to domestic technological innovation are known to influence countries' prospects for avoiding the middle-income trap and successfully...

For much of the last two decades, foreign innovation in China has been driven by competition among foreign firms and by imitative threats from local Chinese firms. However, over the last five years, many domestic Chinese firms are innovating unlike ever before. The ramifications of this...

Populism is no longer a business risk confined to emerging markets. In fact, measured by the share of votes for anti-establishment parties, populism in developed economies is at its highest levels since the 1930s. Given the multiplicity of factors driving this “neo-populism” and the type of...