China’s innovation dilemma Tech advances have been impressive, but constraints on business productivity and imagination are a major obstacle.
A robotic arm arranges dice during the 2021 World Digital Industry Expo in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, 24 March 2021 (Ma Jian/VCG via Getty Images) Published 10 May 2021 12:00 0 Comments
It has long been conventional wisdom that China would struggle to become an innovative nation. China’s controlled society, with lack of freedom of speech and expression, propaganda and censorship, together with an education system that emphasises rote learning and memorisation have been judged to limit creativity and the development of new ideas. As one report in the