China’s Catching-Up Process and Its Emergence as a Potential Lead Country in Artificial Intelligence

Cecilia Rikap () and Bengt-Åke Lundvall
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Cecilia Rikap: City, University of London

Chapter Chapter 6 in The Digital Innovation Race, 2021, pp 121-144 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter explores China’s catching-up in artificial intelligence (AI) with high-income countries. It is inspired by Christopher Freeman’s work on, how radical technical change opens up for shifts in world leadership. Focusing on artificial intelligence as a core technology of the second phase of the Information and Communication Technology revolution, we analyse the strengths and weaknesses of China’s innovation system focusing on its catching-up in AI, seen as a co-evolution of the country’s national innovation system and the corporate innovation systems of Alibaba and Tencent.

Keywords: Catching-up; Corporate Innovation System; National Innovation System; Christopher Freeman; China; Big tech (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89443-6_6

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