This paper explores what we know about possible employment effects of the 10-year plan, issued by the State Council on May 19, 2015, entitled Made in China 2025. MIC2025 was designed to address China's emerging labor shortage challenge. To achieve this goal, the plan seeks to boost labor...

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...

China has become the largest and fastest growing semiconductor market in the world, absorbing 40% of the worldwide semiconductor shipments. For US semiconductor firms, nothing compares to the China market. China however faces a fundamental dilemma. As the world's leading exporter of electronic...

China, the world's leading exporter of electronic products, faces a fundamental dilemma. It is the largest and fastest-growing market for semiconductors, the core component of those electronics products. Yet, at least 80 percent of the semiconductors consumed in China's electronics products...

The paper examines the role of global technology sourcing, and its drivers and impacts in China’s integrated circuit (IC) design industry . IC design is one of the priority targets of China’s innovation policy, as codified especially in the “Strategic Emerging Industries” initiative. At...