SOAS China Institute
Seminars are free and open to the public, however registration is required.
Date: Wednesday 19 June 2019
Time: 5pm-6.30pm
Title: China’s High-Tech Innovation Drive: Domestic Results, Global Implications
Speaker: Scott Kennedy (Senior Advisor and Director of the Project on Chinese Business and Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Chair: Prof. Steve Tsang (Director, SOAS China Institute)
Venue: Room S209, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House, SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Abstract
China has set amazingly ambitious goals in achieving high-tech leadership. Although China has made substantial overall progress in the last two decades, performance across sectors has varied widely. The effect on China’s trading partners and global industries likewise has also varied. China’s performance record has important implications for how Western governments and industry should respond.
Biography
Scott Kennedy is Senior Adviser in the Freeman Chair in China Studies and Director of the Project on Chinese Business and Political Economy at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS). A leading authority on Chinese economic policy, specific areas of focus include industrial policy, technology innovation, business lobbying, US-China commercial relations, and global governance. He is the author of China’s Risky Drive into New-Energy Vehicles (CSIS, November 2018), The Fat Tech Dragon: Benchmarking China’s Innovation Drive (CSIS, August 2017), and The Business of Lobbying in China (Harvard University Press, 2005). He has edited three books, and his articles have appeared in a wide array of policy, popular, and academic venues. He is currently writing a book, tentatively titled, The Power of Innovation: The Strategic Importance of China’s High-Tech Drive. From 2000 to 2014 Kennedy was a professor at Indiana University; while there he created the Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business and was the founding academic director of IU’s China Office. Kennedy received his Ph.D. in political science from George Washington University and his M.A. in China Studies from Johns Hopkins-SAIS.
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