Gwynn Guilford reports in Quartz that while China plans to become “an ‘innovation-oriented nation’ by 2020″ and “a ‘world science and technology power’ by around 2050,” engineers have already been producing “world-class patents” to the benefit of foreign companies:
“Our study suggests that the increase in U.S. patents in [China] are to a great extent driven by [multinational companies] from advanced economies and are highly dependent on collaborations with inventors in those advanced economies,” says the report’s authors
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