Innovations ‘borrowed, digested and re-invented’ are legit?

Innovations ‘borrowed, digested and re-invented’ are legit?

BEIJING – China wants to have your technology transferred here, while simultaneously sending theirs overseas. The $64 million question is if the rest of the world will go along with this notion, especially considering the perception gap in IPR protection, as defined by China — the “knockoff capital of the universe” — compared to just about everybody else in said universe.

When Zhongguancun Haidian Science Park -- China’s first and foremost high-tech cluster located in the Haidian district of Beijing – held this week its annual conference here, the organizer put “technology transfer” atop the agenda.

Invited to this Zhongguancun Forum were more than 2,000 people -- including dignitaries of the Chinese government, institutes and academia, and U.S., European and Asian business executives, industry officials and experts.

For China, technology transfer is essential to narrowing the gap. It’s critical to the nation’s global strategy, according to both international and Chinese representatives who spoke at the Forum.

Beijing, on one hand, demands active development of home-grown technologies by setting a lofty national goal for Chinese scientists and engineers to file 2 million patents annually by 2015. However, China is keenly aware of its chronic technology gap with the West, and knows that it can’t catch up by going it alone.


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