Chinese Bureaucracy for Innovation-Driven Development?

This Element scrutinizes the attempts by the Chinese party-state bureaucracy since the 2000s to advance innovation and technological upgrading. It examines insights from the developmental state debate ¿ the need for a bureaucracy to achieve internal coherence and the capacity of that bureaucracy both to forge coalitions between bureaucrats, businessmen, and scientists and to discipline domestic companies. Moreover, it assesses efforts to foster technological upgrading in the semiconductor and electric vehicle industries. While there are significant differences between China and earlier successful developmental states, with the former facing problems such as the legacies of short-termism, limited monitoring capabilities, and flawed discipline over business, the authors find that, compared with other emerging capitalist economies, the Chinese bureaucracy has developed strong capabilities to advance 'innovation-driven development.' This Element seeks to provide avenues for comparing China with other late developers.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The Chinese Bureaucracy and Innovation-Driven Development; 3. Assessing Technological Upgrading: Semiconductors and Electric Vehicles; 4. Conclusion; References.

Summary

In this Element, the authors find that compared with other emerging capitalist economies, the Chinese bureaucracy has developed relatively strong capabilities to advance “innovation-driven development”. This Element seeks to provide avenues for comparing it with other late developers.

Foreword

This Element surveys and discusses building blocks for understanding the political conditions of China's recent innovation-driven strategy.

Product details

• Authors: Tobias Ten Brink, A. P. Gomes, A. P. (Constructor University Gomes, Alexandre De Podestá Gomes, Alexandre De Podesta (Constructor Universit Gomes, Alexandre de Podestá Gomes, Tobias Ten Brink
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2023
• EAN: 9781108972215
• ISBN: 978-1-108-97221-5
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in the Politics of Development
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, 21st Century, Comparative Politics, Development economics & emerging economies, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Development economics and emerging economies, Political ideologies and movements