Global Production Networks. The Case of China

Abstract

The emergence of global corporate networks that integrate dispersed production, engineering, product development and research activities across geographic borders poses new challenges and opportunities for national industrial and innovation policies. This book is a collection of essays on questions that are of great importance for policy debates and management strategies in emerging economies:

•What are the driving forces and characteristics of these global networks? •What do we know about the increasing diversity and complexity of these networks? •What are possible impacts on the geographic distribution of knowledge? •Where does China’s ambitious strategy to upgrade its economy through innovation fit into this new geography of innovation? •And what lessons, if any, could be drawn for policies in emerging economies that seek to capture the gains from global network integration