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BUILDING THE 21ST CENTURY

U.S.-China Cooperation on Science,
Technology, and Innovation

Summary of a Symposium

Charles W. Wessner, Rapporteur

Committee on Comparative National Innovation Policies:
Best Practice for the 21st Century

Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy

Policy and Global Affairs

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
                         OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

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THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

Advisers to the Nation on Science, Engineering, and Medicine

The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government on scientific and technical matters. Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone is president of the National Academy of Sciences.

The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers. It is autonomous in its administration and in the selection of its members, sharing with the National Academy of Sciences the responsibility for advising the federal government. The National Academy of Engineering also sponsors engineering programs aimed at meeting national needs, encourages education and research, and recognizes the superior achievements of engineers. Dr. Charles M. Vest is president of the National Academy of Engineering.

The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public. The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the National Academy of Sciences by its congressional charter to be an adviser to the federal government and, upon its own initiative, to identify issues of medical care, research, and education. Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg is president of the Institute of Medicine.

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COMMITTEE ON COMPARATIVE NATIONAL
INNOVATION POLICIES: BEST PRACTICE FOR THE
21ST CENTURY*

Alan Wm. Wolff, Chair
Of Counsel
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
and STEP Board

Kenneth S. Flamm, Co-Vice Chair

Dean Rusk Chair in International Affairs

Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

University of Texas at Austin

Alice H. Amsden

Professor of Political Economy Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gail H. Cassell (IOM)

Vice President, Scientific Affairs and Distinguished Lilly Research Scholar for Infectious Diseases Eli Lilly and Company

Carl J. Dahlman

Henry R. Luce Associate

Professor

Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

Georgetown University

Mary L. Good (NAE), Co-Vice Chair

Donaghey University Professor Dean, Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology

University of Arkansas at Little Rock and STEP Board

Bronwyn Hall

Professor of Economics University of California at Berkeley

Kent H. Hughes

Public Policy Scholar

Woodrow Wilson Center

Mark B. Myers

Senior Vice President, retired Xerox

*As of May 2010

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Project Staff *

Charles W. Wessner
Study Director

McAlister T. Clabaugh

Program Officer

David S. Dawson

Sr. Project Assistant

David E. Dierksheide

Program Officer

Peter Engardio

Consultant

Adam H. Gertz

Program Associate (through June 2010)

Sujai J. Shivakumar

Senior Program Officer

*As of November 2010

 

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For the National Research Council (NRC), this project was overseen by the Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy (STEP), a standing board of the NRC established by the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering and the Institute of Medicine in 1991. The mandate of the STEP Board is to integrate understanding of scientific, technological, and economic elements in the formulation of national policies to promote the economic well-being of the United States. A distinctive characteristic of STEP’s approach is its frequent interactions with public and private-sector decision makers. STEP bridges the disciplines of business management, engineering, economics, and the social sciences to bring diverse expertise to bear on pressing public policy questions. The members of the STEP Board* and the NRC staff are listed below:

Paul L. Joskow, Chair

President

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Lewis W. Coleman

President & CFO

DreamWorks Animation

Alan M. Garber (IOM)

Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor

Professor of Medicine

Director, Center for Primary

Care and Outcomes Research

Stanford University

Ralph E. Gomory (NAS/NAE)

Research Professor

Stern School of Business

New York University and President Emeritus

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Mary L. Good (NAE)

Donaghey University Professor

Dean, Donaghey College of

Engineering and Information Technology

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Amory Houghton, Jr.

Former Member of Congress

William F. Meehan III

Lecturer in Strategic Management

Raccoon Partners Lecturer in Management

Stanford University and

Director Emeritus

McKinsey and Co., Inc.

David T. Morgenthaler

Founding Partner

Morgenthaler Ventures

*As of May 2010

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Joseph P. Newhouse (IOM)

John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management Harvard Medical School

Edward E. Penhoet (IOM)

Director

Alta Partners

Arati Prabhakar

General Partner

U.S. Venture Partners

William J. Raduchel

Chairman

Opera Software ASA

Jack W. Schuler

Partner

Crabtree Partners

Laura D’Andrea Tyson

S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management

Haas School of Business

University of California, Berkeley

Alan Wm. Wolff

Of Counsel

Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP

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STEP Staff *

Stephen A. Merrill

Executive Director

McAlister T. Clabaugh

Program Officer

David S. Dawson

Sr. Project Assistant

David E. Dierksheide

Program Officer

Charles W. Wessner

Program Director

Adam H. Gertz

Program Associate (through June 2010)

Daniel Mullins

Program Associate

Sujai J. Shivakumar

Senior Program Officer

*As of November 2010

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

I INTRODUCTION

II PROCEEDINGS

Welcome

Charles Wessner, The National Academies

Opening Remarks

Alan Wm. Wolff, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP

Opening Remarks

Ren Weimin, National Development and Reform Commission

Building Global Partnerships: Opportunities in U.S.-China Cooperation

Anna Borg, U.S. Department of State

Panel I Building the New Energy Economy

Moderator: Michael Borrus, X/Seed Capital Management

New Renewable Energy Initiatives in the United States

Kristina M. Johnson, U.S. Department of Energy

Renewable Energy Policy in China

Ren Weimin, National Development and Reform Commission

Panel II Innovation Clusters and the 21st Century University

Moderator: Carl Dahlman, Georgetown University

Universities, Science Parks, and Clusters in China’s Innovation Ecosystem

Lou Jing Ministry of Education

Universities and the U.S. Innovation System

Charles Vest, National Academy of Engineering

Universities as Drivers of Growth in the United States

C. D. Mote, Jr., University of Maryland, College Park

U.S. Initiatives for Building Innovation Clusters

Ginger Lew, National Economic Council

Discussion

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Panel III ICT and Innovation: Growth Engine and Enabling Technologies

Moderator: Dan Breznitz, Georgia Institute of Technology

Impact of Broadband on Economic Growth and Productivity

Chen Ying, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

Broadband Strategy in the United states

Eugene J. Huang, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

ICT Development in U.S. and Chinese Contexts

Mark E. Dean, IBM Research

Discussion

Panel IV New Frontiers: Opportunities & Challenges for Cooperation

Moderator: Bill Bonvillian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

International Collaboration and Indigenous Innovation

Yang Xianwu, Ministry of Science and Technology

Joint U.S.-China Medical Research Opportunities

Anna Barker, National Cancer Institute

National Laboratories and International Cooperation

Robin L. Newmark, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Discussion

Lessons Learned and Next Steps

Moderator: Michael Borrus X/Seed Capital Management

III APPENDIXES

A Agenda

B Biographies of Speakers

C Participant List

D Bibliography

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PREFACE

Recognizing that a capacity to innovate and commercialize new high-technology products is increasingly a part of the international competition for economic leadership, governments around the world are taking active steps to strengthen their national innovation systems. These steps underscore the widely held belief that the rising costs and risks associated with new potentially high-payoff technologies, and the growing global dispersal of technical expertise, require national R&D programs to support new and existing high-technology firms within their borders.

What is the impact of these initiatives for the competitive position of the United States? In a recent report, the National Academies warned that “this nation must prepare with great urgency to preserve its strategic and economic security,” adding that “the United States must compete by optimizing its knowledge-based resources, particularly in science and technology, and by sustaining the most fertile environment for new and revitalized industries and the well-paying jobs they bring.”1

Understanding the policies that other nations are pursuing to become more innovative and to what effect is essential to understanding how the nature and terms of economic competition are shifting.2 U.S. policymakers would benefit from knowing of the wide variety of

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1National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering/Institute of Medicine, Rising Above the Gathering Strom: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Future, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2007.

2Kent Hughes has argued in this regard that the challenges of the 21st century require new strategies that take account of new technologies, new global competitors, as well as new national priorities concerning national security and the environment. See Kent Hughes, Building the Next American Century: The Past and Future of American Economic Competitiveness, Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2005, Chapter 14.

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innovation and competitiveness policies that leading nations have adopted. In the case of China, these innovation policies are designed to rapidly build research capacities to acquire knowledge and to transition that knowledge to national companies as a means of supporting domestic growth and employment and of building national strength.

The Overall Project

The global economy is characterized by increasing locational competition to attract the resources necessary to develop leading-edge technologies as drivers of regional and national growth. One means of facilitating such growth and improving national competitiveness is to improve the operation of the national innovation system. This involves national technology development and innovation programs designed to support research on new technologies, enhance the commercial return on national research, and facilitate the production of globally competitive products.

Here is the full Statement of Task for the project: Recognizing the importance of targeted government promotional policies relative to innovation, the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) is studying selected foreign innovation programs and comparing them with major U.S. programs. This analysis of Comparative Innovation Policy, carried out under the direction of an ad hoc Committee, includes a review of the goals, concept, structure, operation, funding levels, and evaluation of foreign programs designed to advance the innovation capacity of national economies and enhance their international competitiveness.

This analysis focuses on key areas of future growth, such as renewable energy, among others, to generate case-specific recommendations where appropriate. The Committee will assess foreign programs using a standard template, convene a series of meetings to gather data from responsible officials and program managers, and encourage a systematic dissemination of information and analysis as a means of better understanding the transition of research into products and of improving the operation of U.S. programs.

The Context of the Project

Since 1991 the STEP Board has undertaken a program of activities to improve policy makers’ understanding of the interconnections among science, technology, and economic policy and their importance to the American economy and its international competitive position. The

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Board’s interest in comparative innovation policies derives directly from its mandate.

This mandate has previously been reflected in STEP’s widely cited volume, U.S. Industry in 2000, which assesses the determinants of competitive performance in a wide range of manufacturing and service industries, including those relating to information technology.3 The Board also undertook a major study, chaired by Gordon Moore of Intel, on how government-industry partnerships can support the growth and commercialization of productivity enhancing technologies.4 Reflecting a growing recognition of the importance of the surge in productivity since 1995, the Board also launched a multifaceted assessment, exploring the sources of growth, measurement challenges, and the policy framework required to sustain the New Economy.5

The current study on Comparative Innovation Policy builds on STEP’s experience to bring together leading academics, public officials, business representatives, and policy experts to better identify current trends and challenge in U.S. and foreign innovation programs.

Project Activities

To open its analysis, the study Committee held an overview symposium that drew together leading academics, policy analysts, and senior policymakers from around the globe to describe their national innovation programs and policies, outline their objectives, and highlight

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3National Research Council, U.S. Industry in 2000: Studies in Competitive Performance, David C. Mowery, ed., Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999.

4This summary of a multi-volume study provides the Moore Committee’s analysis of best practices among key U.S. public-private partnerships. See National Research Council, Government-Industry Partnerships for the Development of New Technologies: Summary Report, Charles W. Wessner, ed., Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2003. For a list of U.S. partnership programs, see Christopher Coburn and Dan Berglund, Partnerships: A Compendium of State and Federal Cooperative Programs, Columbus, OH: Battelle Press, 1995.

5National Research Council, Enhancing Productivity Growth in the Information Age: Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy, Dale W. Jorgenson and Charles W. Wessner, eds., Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2007.

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their achievements.6 Follow up symposia in Taipei and Tokyo focused on the evolution of the Taiwanese and Japanese innovation systems over the past decade. The Committee also convened a major conference in Washington that identified current trends in the Indian innovation system and highlighted the new U.S.–India innovation partnership.7 This was soon followed by a symposium on “Synergies in Regional and National Innovation Policies in the Global Economy” held in Flanders, Belgium. This event reviewed European Union, national and regional innovation policies in Flanders, a region of Belgium, with a major university and research center with a strong commercialization record. Flanders is also home to IMEC, one of the leading microelectronics research facilities in the world and the flagship of Flemish technology policy. Also with respect to Europe, the Committee examined over a series of meetings the potential for greater U.S.-Polish cooperation in science and innovation, with particular attention to traditional energy sources (e.g., coal) and health. The Committee also held a major symposium that reviewed national strategies to foster the development of science and technology research parks around the world.8 More recently, the Committee held a symposium in Washington, DC, on U.S.-China Cooperation on Science, Technology, and Innovation, which drew together speakers primarily from the U.S. and Chinese governments and academia. This was followed in June 2011 with a series of meetings in Shanghai and Beijing that included U.S. and Chinese corporate leaders and leading Chinese academic researchers. In 2010, the Committee also convened a conference on Meeting Global Challenges: U.S.-German Innovation Policy. A follow-up conference to this event was held in Berlin in 2011 that further compared U.S. and German approaches to support innovation and manufacturing both in terms of institutional support (e.g., by the Fraunhofer Institutes) and in specific sectors such as bio-medical, electric vehicle and solar technologies. Drawing together the information and insights from this series of meetings, the Committee will develop a

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6For a summary of this conference, see National Research Council, Innovation Policies for the 21st Century, Charles W. Wessner, ed., Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2007.

7For a summary of this conference, see National Research Council, India’s Changing Innovation System: Achievements, Challenges, and Opportunities for Cooperation, Charles W. Wessner and Sujai J. Shivakumar, eds., Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2007.

8The report has garnered considerable national and international attention. See National Research Council, Understanding Research, Science, and Technology Parks: Global Best Practices-Report of a Symposium. Charles W. Wessner, ed., Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2009.

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consensus report that provides recommendations for U.S. innovation policy for the 21st Century.

This Workshop Summary

This report captures the presentations and discussions of the 2010 STEP symposium on U.S.-China Cooperation on Science, Technology, and Innovation. It includes an introduction highlighting key issues raised at the meeting and summary of the meeting’s presentations. This workshop summary has been prepared by the workshop rapporteur as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop. The planning committee’s role was limited to planning and convening the workshop. The statements made are those of the rapporteur or individual workshop participants and do not necessarily represent the views of all workshop participants, the planning committee, or the National Academies.

Acknowledgments

On behalf of the National Academies, we express our appreciation and recognition for the insights, experiences, and perspectives made available by the participants of this meeting. We are indebted to Pete Engardio for preparing the introduction and summary of the meeting. We are also indebted to Sujai Shivakumar of the STEP staff for his work on the review of this report.

Acknowledgment of Reviewers

This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Academies’ Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for quality and objectivity. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the process.

We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report: William Bonvillian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Washington, DC; Dieter Ernst, East-West Center; Patrick Keating, Stanford University; and Mu Rongping, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the content of

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the report, nor did they see the final draft before its release. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the rapporteur and the institution.

Alan Wm. Wolff

Charles W. Wessner

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The global economy is characterized by increasing locational competition to attract the resources necessary to develop leading-edge technologies as drivers of regional and national growth. One means of facilitating such growth and improving national competitiveness is to improve the operation of the national innovation system. This involves national technology development and innovation programs designed to support research on new technologies, enhance the commercial return on national research, and facilitate the production of globally competitive products.

Understanding the policies that other nations are pursuing to become more innovative and to what effect is essential to understanding how the nature and terms of economic competition are shifting. Building the 21st Century U.S.-China Cooperation on Science, Technology, and Innovation studies selected foreign innovation programs and comparing them with major U.S. programs. This analysis of Comparative Innovation Policy includes a review of the goals, concept, structure, operation, funding levels, and evaluation of foreign programs designed to advance the innovation capacity of national economies and enhance their international competitiveness. This analysis focuses on key areas of future growth, such as renewable energy, among others, to generate case-specific recommendations where appropriate.

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