CONCLUSION: Innovation in China: Past, Present, and Future Prospects

The Handbook of China Innovation, through the contributions of more than sixty leading scholars in the field of China innovation and development studies, attempts to provide a contemporary, authoritative, and critical assessment of the current state of knowledge on the topic of innovation in China. This concluding section, summarizes the main findings of this Handbook, based on the insights from each of the chapters and addresses the question of whether China will become a global innovation superpower. It considers China’s past, present, and future innovation prospects from the perspectives of macroeconomic policy, institutions, microeconomic policies, and managerial initiatives, considering the roles played by both the state and the private sectors and by both domestic and international actors.