“the relative priority of R&D shifted from renewable energy technology to pollution abatement…In 12th five-year plan period, the Chinese government strongly promoted pollution control to improve air and water pollution problems. Specifically, the Chinese government allotted…1.37 trillion U.S.$ to fight water and air pollution ”
It’s a pity that the
Japan researchers did not cite Lundvall (2017) who wrote that
countries and organizations promoting ‘experience-based’ knowledge and
combining it with science-based knowledge are more innovative than those that only give attention
to codified knowledge meaning that scientific production alone is not enough to
unleash the innovation potential
The interesting part is that some “famous” Chinese already complained about that same problem https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-role-of-academia-towards-type-1.html
No surprise then that I
heard some Western Colleagues saying that Chinese are excellent in doing
rigorous scientific research of the standard type but not of the disruptive
type because their society does not favour disruptive behaviour. Probably that´s why
some rich Chinese corporations have put money on Indian startups instead https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/323331
