Who’s winning the tech race?

The #politics of #technology – Joseph Sifakis from the VERIMAG laboratory tells Juliet Mann why China’s pulling ahead.

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00:00China has excellent integrative innovation capabilities by leveraging its strengths.

00:08And these strengths include a very solid and broad base in all areas of industrial production,

00:18as well as a unified and coherent national economic space.

00:24Additionally, China has a strong political willingness to progress along the path of

00:31scientific and technical innovation, based on a consistent commitment on the part of

00:38the state to develop visions that are pursued with perseverance and substantial investment.

00:47That has borne fruit, enabling China to catch up spectacularly in a number of industrial

00:54fields such as construction, shipbuilding, the automotive industry, and telecommunications.