Principal Investigator: Richard P. Suttmeier
Co-Investigator: Cao Cong
Project Description
As the technical dimensions of international problems - ranging from
national security to global struggles to control disease - acquire greater
salience, science and technology are playing an increasingly important
role in US foreign policy. At the same time, scientific research and
technological innovation are becoming increasingly globalized as important
centers of scientific and engineering competence emerge in new parts
of the world, with unsettling implications for national economies, employment
patterns for scientists and engineers, and the distribution of capabilities
of importance to national security. Globalization, in short, is changing
the playing field for research and innovation, and it is becoming increasingly
important for the US to incorporate these changes in its visions of what
foreign policy for the 21st-century should entail. An especially important
part of this new reality is China's emergence as a great economic power
and, through the efforts of China's own research institutions and a growing
number of MNCs attracted by the human and institutional resources available
for original research and creative innovation in China, a critical site
for knowledge creation, utilization, and diffusion as well.
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