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GLOBAL
MANUFACTURING
AND
SECONDARY
INNOVATION IN CHINA
Latecomer’s advantages
Series on Innovation and Operations Management for Chinese Enterprises
Print ISSN: 2591-7188
Online ISSN: 2591-7196
Editor: Xiaobo Wu (School of Management, Zhejiang University, China)
Published:
Vol. 6: Global Manufacturing and Secondary Innovation in China: Latecomer’s Advantages by Xiaobo Wu
Vol. 5: R&D Investment of Multinational Corporations and China’s Independent Innovation by Wen Xiao, Jiadong Pan and Gaobang Lin
Vol. 4: The Theory and Policies of Mutual Benefit and Win-Win Strategy: Research on Sustainable Development of China’s Open Economy by Lixin Yu and Wanling Chen
Vol. 3: The Internationalization of Technological Innovation for Chinese Enterprises by Jin Chen
Vol. 2: Basic Research and Industrial Innovation in China by Xielin Liu, Yubing He and Peng Cheng
Vol. 1: Independent Innovation in China: Theory and Cases by Huibo Zhong and Jiasu Lei
Series on Innovation and Operations Management for Chinese Enterprises - Vol. 6
GLOBAL
MANUFACTURING
AND
SECONDARY
INNOVATION IN CHINA
Latecomer’s advantages
Xiaobo Wu
Zhejiang University, China
Published by
World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
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USA office: 27 Warren Street, Suite 401-402, Hackensack, NJ 07601
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and
Zhejiang University Press
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Xixi Campus of Zhejiang University
Hangzhou 310028, China
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Wu, Xiaobo, author.
Title: Global manufacturing and secondary innovation in China : latecomer’s advantages / Xiaobo Wu.
Description: First Edition. | Hackensack : World Scientific and Zhejiang University Press, 2021. | Series: Series on innovation and operations management for chinese enterprises, 2591-7188 ; 6 | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020027485 | ISBN 9789811222153 (hardcover) | ISBN 9789811224799 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Manufacturing industries--China--Technological innovations. | Strategic planning--China. | Production planning--China. | Information technology--China--Management. | China--Economic conditions--2000–
Classification: LCC HD9736.C45 W8 2021 | DDC 338/.0640951--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020027485
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Foreword I
I am delighted to offer some introductory remarks to this original and timely work. The globalization of industry is apparent to everyone and nowhere more clearly than in China. Professor Xiaobo Wu is ideally placed to offer deep insights into the way developing countries are responding to these dramatic changes.
But this book goes far beyond reporting current practice. It explores in detail the way in which so called ‘secondary innovation’ can enable companies in developing countries to rapidly assimilate technologies and practices and use these as a platform for competitive industrial activity.
The book will be welcomed by successful industry leaders in developing countries who will recognize the opportunities it offers to extend their capabilities and business opportunities.
It will also be read with interest in industrialized countries seeking to understand the likely trajectories of global industrial developments.
I am proud to note that some of the ideas in this book have their origins in the time when Professor Wu was a most welcomed visitor to the Institute for Manufacturing in Cambridge. The warm relationship with Zhejiang University continues to flourish.
Professor M. J. Gregory
Head, Institute for Manufacturing
University of Cambridge
Foreword II
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