Upcoming Event: Can China Innovate in Advanced Industries?

Please join us for an important briefing on Chinese innovation in key advanced industries!

What-

Two expert panels will discuss the findings of a 20-month ITIF investigation into China’s innovative performance in robotics, chemicals, nuclear power, electric vehicles and batteries, biotechnology, semiconductors, AI, quantum computing, and display technology.

Panelists will reveal how close China is to the frontiers of scientific and technological innovation and what lessons policymakers can draw to improve America’s innovation capabilities and maintain its competitive advantage.

Why It Matters-

The prevailing view of China’s economy has long been that it is a production powerhouse—“the world’s factory floor”—but otherwise a mere “fast follower” that lacks the leading-edge scientific and technological capabilities to develop new-to-the-world innovations of its own.

If that were true, then the United States and its allies in the West would have little need to reconsider their industrial policies to remain globally competitive.

But if Chinese firms are becoming true innovators in the advanced industries at the heart of the global economy, then America and the West face a far more formidable competitive challenge.

Details-

?? Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2024

?? Time: 9:00 – 10:30 AM EDT

?? Location: U.S. Capitol Building, Meeting Room HC-5, First Street NE, Washington DC

*Can attend in person or online.

?? RSVP: Register online

Speakers-

Featured Speaker: Congressman John Moolenaar, Chairman of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party

Panel 1: Assessing Chinese Firm Technology and Innovation Capabilities

• Stephen Ezell, Vice President, Global Innovation Policy, and Director, Center for Life Sciences Innovation, ITIF (Moderator)
• Emily W. Jin, China Analyst, Datenna
• Rick Switzer, Former Director, U.S. Department of State

Panel 2: Assessing the Chinese National Innovation System and Implications for U.S. Policy

• Rob Atkinson, President, ITIF (Moderator)
• Rush Doshi , C.V. Starr Senior Fellow for Asia Studies and Director of the China Strategy Initiative, Council on Foreign Relations
• Liza Tobin , Senior Director for Economy, Special Competitive Studies Project

Questions: Submit questions for the speakers via Slido.

Learn more & register?https://itif.org/events/2024/09/18/can-china-innovate/