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Can China move beyond being an innovation sponge?

Geoff Riley

1st November 2015

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Can China move from being an innovation sponge relying heavily on absorbing and adapting existing technology and knowledge from around the world into an economy which catalyses innovation to move higher up value chains and also export new technologies around the world?

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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