Policy, Regulation and Innovation in China's Electricity and Telecom Industries

ISBN-13: 9781108703697 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 526 str.

Loren Brandt; Thomas G. Rawski

Opis

A detailed account of China's entry into advanced manufacturing. Focusing on electricity, telecoms and semiconductors, this book shows how institutional obstacles, conflicting objectives and Soviet-era legacies limit the impact of innovation efforts, resulting in a complex mosaic of success and failure in both technical and commercial dimensions.

Spis treści

1. Policy, regulation and innovation in China's electricity and telecom industries Loren Brandt and Thomas G. Rawski; 2. Electricity and telecom regulation: China in context Irene S. Wu; 3. Local government and firm innovation: China's clean energy sector Margaret M. Pearson; 4. Electricity systems integration challenges: a local perspective Michael Davidson; 5. When global technology meets local standards: re-assessing China's communications policy in the age of platform innovation Eric Thun and Timothy Sturgeon; 6. State grid: an entrepreneurial and innovative state enterprise Yi-chong Xu; 7. Growth, upgrading and limited catch-up in China's semiconductor industry Douglas B. Fuller; 8. Growth, upgrading and excess cost in China's electric power sector Thomas G. Rawski; 9. China's development of wind and solar power Loren Brandt and Luhang Wang; 10. Capability upgrading and catch-up in civil nuclear power: the case of China Ravi Madhavan, Thomas G. Rawski and Qingfeng Tian.