catch-up.
The publication of this book would have been impossible without the support from many forerunners and peer scholars. Great acknowledgements firstly go to my mentors: including, Prof. Xu Qingrui at School of Management, Zhejiang University, PhD supervisor, and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering; Prof. Sir Mike Gregory, my mentor at Cambridge University when I was a visiting scholar; Prof. James Utterback, my mentor at MIT Sloan School of Management when I was a Fulbright Scholar. Their dedicated and attentive instructions guided me into such an intriguing and lifetime-worthy research field. I also want to give special thanks to my former PhD student, now my colleague, Associate Prof. Ms. Du Jian, and my present PhD students including Zhang Haoyu, Zhao Ziyi and Zhou Chao. Their participation and assistance helped me complete the manuscript. I also want to thank other peer researchers for their advice and comments. Their honest and candid advice helped to point out the right direction for this book. At last, I want to give a lot of credits to my friends from the manufacturing industry, whose unreserved sharing enriches this book.
Criticisms and suggestions from all readers to this book will be highly appreciated!
Xiaobo Wu
Contents
1.1 New trend of globalization
1.2 China’s manufacturing industry’s participation in globalization
1.2.1 Growth of inbound foreign investments fluctuates and its proportion gradually decreases
1.2.2 Outbound investment quickly rising and net capital output achieved
1.2.3 Increasingly diversified investment and steadily growing cross-border M&As
1.3 Innovation capability building of China’s manufacturing industry
1.3.2 Technological innovation capabilities
1.4 Opportunities and challenges faced by China’s manufacturing industry
1.4.1 Opportunities
1.5 Research intention and structure of this book
Chapter 2 Theoretical and Practical Background of Secondary Innovation
2.1.1 Latecomer’s advantages and disadvantages
2.1.2 Introduce, digest, absorb and re-innovate technologies
2.1.3 Technological paradigms and catch-up traps
Chapter 3 The Dynamic Model of Secondary Innovation
3.2 Model of secondary innovation
3.3 The evolutionary process of secondary innovation
3.3.1 Sub-process I: Imitative innovation (as shown in Diagram 3-3)
3.3.2 Sub-process II: Creative imitation (as shown in Diagram 3-4)
3.3.3 Sub-process III: Improved innovation (as shown in Diagram 3-5)
3.5 Case: Core technologies of ZTE
3.5.1 Introduction and imitation of the core technologies
3.5.1.1 Exploitative learning of the core technology
3.5.1.2 Exploratory learning of the core technology
3.5.2 ZTE’s learning of assistive technologies
3.5.2.1 Utilization of localized design capabilities
3.5.2.2 Exploration of assistive technologies
3.5.2.3 Assistive technology utilization based on alliance cooperation
