ZHAO Wei
Zhao Wei is Associate Professor at the ESSCA School of Management (France), Senior Fellow at the Institute for Pearl River Delta Reform and Development at Sun Yat-Sen University (China), and Associate Researcher at the Centre d’économie de l’Université Paris Nord (CEPN, France). Before academia, he was Marketing Director of a Hong Kong real estate company and Public Affairs Director with Carrefour in South China.
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CAPABILITIES AND THE CO-EXISTENCE OF DIFFERENT
INDUSTRIAL GROWTH PATTERNS
Abstract : Based on the example of the automobile and electronics sector in
China, the article examines the technological learning of companies in China
and the way it is influenced by industrial policy. Companies have consolidated
their production capacity and technological learning but are rarely in the
position to develop an innovation capability. The article shows the diversity of
enterprises and identifies two opposing modes of development, either based on
technological transfers of foreign technologies mainly through state-owned
enterprises, or based on assimilation and learning of technologies acquired
through the clients in private or foreign-owned companies or other new
enterprises, of a rather small size. The latter are less favoured by official
policies and have difficulties in obtaining the advantages that may have been
available through the national innovation system (training, higher education,
research, technical centres, funding). This separation of the innovation system
promoted by the government and the industrial system that was created through
technological learning is, in the authors’ opinion, the main reason for a low
innovation capability of the Chinese industry. The co-existence of these two
different modes is a characteristic feature of China and explains why China
does not follow the “imitation to innovation” path experiences by South Korea
and Japan.
CAPABILITIES AND THE CO-EXISTENCE OF DIFFERENT
INDUSTRIAL GROWTH PATTERNS
Abstract : Based on the example of the automobile and electronics sector in
China, the article examines the technological learning of companies in China
and the way it is influenced by industrial policy. Companies have consolidated
their production capacity and technological learning but are rarely in the
position to develop an innovation capability. The article shows the diversity of
enterprises and identifies two opposing modes of development, either based on
technological transfers of foreign technologies mainly through state-owned
enterprises, or based on assimilation and learning of technologies acquired
through the clients in private or foreign-owned companies or other new
enterprises, of a rather small size. The latter are less favoured by official
policies and have difficulties in obtaining the advantages that may have been
available through the national innovation system (training, higher education,
research, technical centres, funding). This separation of the innovation system
promoted by the government and the industrial system that was created through
technological learning is, in the authors’ opinion, the main reason for a low
innovation capability of the Chinese industry. The co-existence of these two
different modes is a characteristic feature of China and explains why China
does not follow the “imitation to innovation” path experiences by South Korea
and Japan.