Alliance Capitalism, Innovation and the Chinese State

This book analyses how key 'systems integration' technical pressures, and the increasing use of collaborative alliances for market and product development are impacting on the socio technical policy directives of Chinese State leaders and the strategic behaviour of key Chinese high technology firms operating in the global wireless sector.

Autorentext
Victoria Higgins is a teaching associate at Monash University, Australia, and holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Queensland, Australia. She has previously held teaching positions at the University of Queensland and the University of Melbourne. Victoria's research is centred around high-technology development in China with a strong focus on strategic agency and complex systems theory.

Klappentext

This book analyses how key 'systems integration' technical pressures, and the increasing use of collaborative alliances for market and product development are impacting on the socio technical policy directives of Chinese State leaders and the strategic behaviour of key Chinese high technology firms operating in the global wireless sector.

Inhalt

1. China's New Alliance Capitalism and the Case of the Wireless Communication Sector
   
   2. The Perils of Strategic Technological Development Policy: Two Failed Chinese Attempts, FDI and Techno-Nationalism
   3. Complex Global Technological Systems and the Chinese State: From National Indigenous Innovation to Globalised Adaptive Ecology
   4. Technological Development, Alliance Capitalism and Chinese State Capacity
   5. Beyond Neo-Techno-Nationalism: An Introduction to China's Emergent Third Way: Globalised Adaptive Ecology, Emergent Capabilities and Policy Instruments
   6. Global Wireless Sector
   7. Conclusion
   8. Appendices