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China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a new model for Open Innovation

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a strategy initiated by the People’s Republic of China that seeks to connect Asia with Africa and Europe via land and maritime networks. It aims to improve regional integration, increase trade and stimulate economic growth.

The name was coined in 2013 by China’s President Xi Jinping, who drew inspiration from the concept of the Silk Road established during the Han Dynasty 2,000 years ago – an ancient network of trade routes that connected China to the Mediterranean via Eurasia for centuries.

The BRI comprises a trans-continental passage, the Silk Road Economic Belt, and a sea route.

The BRI is the subject of an R&D Management Special Issue looking at the knowledge flows facilitated by the initiative and the role of R&D in commercialising the ideas:

Belt and Road Initiative high speed train
A 21st century silk road

The New Silk Road: R&D Networks, Knowledge Diffusions, and Open Innovation. The authors are Jin Chen, Tsinghua University; Alberto Di Minin, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna; Tim Minshall, University of Cambridge; and Yu-Shan Su, National Taiwan Normal University.

The special issue aims to develop an analytical framework to study the BRI based on six research articles focused around three different topics.

  1. Innovation catch-up opportunities enabled by the BRI
  2. New collaboration models of BRI
  3. New technology-transfer practices of BRI.

These three research topics form the key dimensions for studying the BRI in this SI.  On R&D Today we review two of the papers: –

Boundary spanning roles in cross-border university-industry collaboration: the case of Chinese multinational corporations – Simone Corsi, Xiaolan Fu, and Cintia Külzer-Sacilotto

Open innovation with Chinese characteristics: a dynamic capabilities perspective – Henry Chesbrough, Sohvi Heaton, Liang Mei

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  • China - 21st century silk road
    China's unique approach to boundary spanning on the BRI
    Boundary spanning is defined as brokering information by facilitating and managing knowledge inflows and outflows between two organisations. The Chinese have a unique approach to boundary spanning, researchers Coris, Fu and Külzer-Sacilotto found in their analysis of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
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  • Open Innovation the Chinese way
    Open Innovation the Chinese way
    High-speed rail and semiconductors play a key role in the implementation of China's Belt and Road Initiative, which can be considered a country-level policy of ‘Inside-Out’ open innovation. The authors observe that China’s path to prosperity is very different to that of the West and offer instead a novel combination of innovation theory that is illustrated through strategic management frameworks:...
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