Will China Eat Our Lunch? Some Thoughts on China's State-Driven Policies to Become a Global High-Tech Leader

IRG2
Thursday, February 9, 2012
1:00-3:00
2135 Social Science & Media Studies Bldg.
Speaker: 
CNS Globalization and Nanotechnology IRG Members

Rich Appelbaum, Professor in the Department of Sociology and Professor and MacArthur Chair in the Department of Global and International Studies, a member of the CNS Executive Committee, and the leader of CNS-UCSB’s Globalization and Nanotechnology IRG.

Aashish Mehta, Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies

Matthew Gebbie, Ph.D. student in the Materials Department

Shirley Han, Ph.D. student in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology

Galen Stocking, Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science

UCSB

China is investing heavily in “indigenous innovation,” in an effort to become less dependent on export-oriented low-cost manufacturing, and more self-reliant as a global high-tech leader. In this panel, members of CNS-UCSB’s Globalization and Nanotechnology Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) overview the basic issues, discuss China’s approach to high-tech industrial policy, and present research findings illustrating some outcomes for the Chinese economy and nanotechnology industries.

CNS Globalization and Nanotechnology Interdisciplinary Research Group Website
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