Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Elspeth Thomson -- 1. Technological Development Challenges in Chinese Industry Cong Cao -- GOVERNMENT'S TECHNOLOGY POLICY -- RECENT MOVES IN CHINA'S INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT -- INCREASED R&D ACTIVITIES IN ENTERPRISES -- HIGH-TECH EXPORTS: COMPARATIVE OR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES? -- CHALLENGES -- Continuous Price Wars: The TV Sector -- Infringement of Foreign Patents: The Case of DVD Players -- BROADER AND DEEPER PROBLEMS -- CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 2. China's Regional Variations in Patenting Ding Lu and Albert G. Hu -- FEATURES OF CHINA'S SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ACTIVITIES -- A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 3. R&D Incentives, Industrial Structure and Technology Transfer in China Ping Lin and Jing A. Zhang -- INTRODUCTION -- THE SHORT HISTORY OF LEGAL PROTECTION FOR INNOVATIONS IN CHINA -- R&D AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER IN CHINA: FROM 1991 TO 2004 -- R&D Incentives in China -- Types of Innovations Undertaken -- Types of Innovators -- TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION BY THE LARGE- AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES (LMEs) -- R&D INCENTIVE AND INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE -- The Schumpeterian View -- Low Degree of Industrial Concentration in China -- Availability of Foreign Technologies and Strategic Considerations -- TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TO CHINA -- Sources of Technology Transfer to China -- WTO REQUIREMENTS FOR IPR AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER -- The TRIPS -- The TRIMS -- No More "Force-Technology Transfer" -- R&D Induced by Industry Structural Changes -- Industrial Policy-Based Approach vs. Market Failure- Based Approach -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 4. Standards and the State: Chinese Technology Policy in an Age of Globalisation Richard P. Suttmeier and Xiangkui Yao -- A DRIFT TOWARDS TECHNO-NATIONALISM? -- INNOVATION, STANDARDS AND STRATEGY -- A DIVERSITY OF CASES -- TD-SCDMA.

AVS -- EVD -- Home Networking -- RFID -- THE CASES COMPARED -- Motivations -- Foreign Participation -- Implementation and Institutional Models -- THE ROLE OF THE STATE AND THE POLITICS OF STANDARDS -- CONCLUSION -- 5. The Impact of Financing the High-Tech Industry on the Chinese Banking Sector Yue Ma -- INTRODUCTION -- MODEL WITHOUT HIGH-TECH INDUSTRY -- Household Sector -- Traditional Industrial Sector -- Banking Sector -- Market Equilibrium Conditions -- MODEL WITH BOTH TRADITIONAL AND HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES -- Industrial Sectors -- Banking Sector -- IMPACT OF THE HIGH-TECH INDUSTRY ON THE ECONOMY -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- 6. Ningbo and Dalian: Patterns of Science and Technology Development Jon Sigurdson -- INTRODUCTION -- NINGBO -- Ningbo's Development Zones -- Ningbo's High-Tech Park -- Creating and Using Brainpower: A Look at Ningbo's Institutions of Higher Learning -- Ningbo's Outstanding Enterprises -- Geely Group -- Ningbo Bird -- Ningbo Haitian Machinery -- DALIAN'S EMERGING SOFTWARE INDUSTRY -- The Software Industry -- Dalian Software Park -- Dalian High-Tech Industrial Zone -- Dalian Economic and Technological Development Zone -- Dalian Ascendas IT Park -- Software Companies in Dalian - Examples -- Neusoft Group Ltd -- Dalian Lumei Optoelectronics Corporation -- Dalian High-Think Computer Technology Co Ltd -- Foreign IT Companies in Dalian -- Talent Hunting and Nurturing in Dalian -- CONCLUSION -- 7. Development of China's Semiconductor Industry: Prospects and Problems Michael Heng Siam-Heng -- GROWTH POTENTIAL FOR THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY IN CHINA -- SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CHIP INDUSTRY AND ITS BUSINESS MODELS -- CURRENT CHIP PRODUCTION IN CHINA -- FAVOURABLE FACTORS -- PROBLEMS -- THE REAL CHALLENGE -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- APPENDIX.

8. China's Online News Industry: Control Giving Way to Confucian Virtue Johan Lagerkvist -- STRIVING FOR A SELF-SANITISING INTERNET INDUSTRY -- NEW CONFUCIANISM FOR A POST-COMMUNIST PARTY -- NEW CONFUCIANISM AND CHINESE MEDIA POLICY -- CONCLUDING REMARKS: A CONSTRAINING CONFUCIAN POLITICAL CULTURE -- List of Editors and Contributors -- Index.