Title

Innovation Strategy in US-China High-tech Friction Era : Implications from Text Based New Indicator to Measure Innovation Processes

Speaker

Prof. Kazuyuki Motohashi, The University of Tokyo

Host

Assoc. Prof. Meijun Liu, Institute for Global Public Policy

Discussant

Assoc. Prof. Yin Li, School of International Relations and Public Affairs

Time

12:00-13:20, Nov 17, Tuesday, 2026

Venue

Room 805E, 8th Floor, West Sub-building of Guanghua Towers

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The Speaker：

Prof. Kazuyuki Motohashi

Kazuyuki Motohashi is a professor of technology management, Graduate School of Engineering and Research Center of Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. He is as services as a faculty fellow of RIETI (Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry), as well as a visiting scholar of NISTEP (National Institute of Science and Technology Policy) in the Japanese Government. He is affiliated also with Tongji University, Shanghai International College of Intellectual Property Right as a guest professor. Until this year, he had taken various positions at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of the Japanese Government, economist at OECD.

Abstract:

Competition for technological supremacy reminiscent of the U.S.-Soviet conflict during the Cold War era is being fought undergoing US and China conflict over cutting-edge technology fields. What kind of innovation strategy for sustainable growth in an era of high-tech friction? This is the topic of my talk, based on our empirical studies on cross country comparison of innovation process of China, Japan and US. Specifically, we use the text information in both patent and product-related keywords extracted from company’s web site contents to come up with detailed concordance information between technology and products, and compare them across three countries. According to our study, China becomes to be strong enough to be compared with Japan and US in terms of scientific activities, while there is a significant lag behind these countries in terms of innovation capacity, i.e. the economic institutions to convert scientific findings to radical innovations. My talk focuses on the role of high-tech entrepreneurship in science based innovation process, and discusses potential policy actions toward strengthen innovation performance in Chian in an era of high-tech friction.