Archive for the ‘China Innovation’ Category
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
A biochemistry breakthrough without the “bio” and without the “chemistry?” In China? How can that be? Just mix an insightful scientist with a group of bright young things likely constrained by shoe-string academic research budgets at Beijing University. Pose the question, then pour through thousands of online databases with ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Rich Brubaker had a thought-provoking post entitled, “China’s Innovative Sea Turtles Are Coming Home to Lay Golden Eggs. His supposition, though, that Chinese are inherently innovative makes me think of the Chinese broom. I think a lot about the broom in China: the Chinese broom is short, the stem narrow. ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
“An American, a Swiss, a Belgian and an Englishman were all having a drink in a bar, when the American asked…”
It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but it is actually what happened a couple weeks ago at a recent mixer in Shanghai at the Manifesto Bar, upstairs ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
A casual lunch with an old Chinese friend at a Cantonese restaurant in Shanghai started me to thinking more deeply about China and innovation. Susan (not her real name) works for a consultancy that is concentrating on developing infrastructure for companies focusing on IT-related fields, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Hangzhou is shaping up quickly to become the sort of IT/BPO hub that would make Central Government proud. ChinaTechNews.com had an article last week that:
The Symbio Group, a provider of outsourced software development, testing, globalization and support services out of China, has signed agreements with China's Hangzhou Municipal Government to ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Rich Brubaker over at All Roads Lead to China posted an article in which the Chinese government ranked Tianjina's TEDA (Tianjin Economic Development Area) number one for the tenth year running of all state-approved Economic Development Zones (EDZs) in China. There are 52 nationally-approved zones, with Tibet Lhasa coming online ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
A group of Western engineers and I were sitting around Blue Marlin recently marveling at the low price of the new Indian car by Tata, a mere US$2,500. It’s called the Nano. "The Americans, the Japanese, they all said it couldn't be done, getting a car to the twenty-five hundred ...
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Sometimes I hate dinner parties: the flatulent chatting, the social one-upmanship, the bad wine. However, during the holiday season a Chinese friend of the family’s – and our lawyer representing personal matters for us back in the States – invited us while we were in Chicago to her and her ...
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
This past Sunday afternoon on Chinese TV I watched a bit of a debate - if you can call it that - on China's path to progress in developing global technology competitiveness. The name of the show was Dialogue. The host of the show - who I've never liked for ...
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