Indigenous Innovation and Globalization: The Challenge for China’s Standardization Strategy

Dieter Ernst, East-West Center, Honolulu

11/29/2010
(Original Publish Date: 11/15/2010)

The report examines defining characteristics of the evolving Chinese standards system and explores possible impacts for China as well as the global economy. At the center of the analysis is a fundamental challenge for China's standardization strategy: How to reconcile the primary objective of strengthening indigenous innovation with the country's leading role in international trade and its deep integration into global corporate networks of production and innovation?