Articles

AsiaNBC in Innovation Management magazine
The online magazine Innovation Management brought an overview of the AsiaNBC project. Read it here.

Danish media coverage of AsiaNBC project
The National Danish Broadcasting company, DR, brought a 12 minute segment on Shanzhai - the Chinese pirate and their particular style of innovation. You can hear it here.

Danish media coverage of AsiaNBC project
The Danish daily newspaper Information ran a long cover story on the findings. The articles does a great job of summarizing the main conclusions. Read it here.

Xi Jinping - Chinas coming president
An article in The Economist portrays Xi Jinping, who was recently given a high military post, traditionally reserved for the coming president. Mr. Xi is expected to take over, when Hu Jintao steps down as general secretary in late 2012. The current deputy prime minister, Li Keqiang, is expected is expected to take over from Wen Jiabao as prime minister.

What it's like to be bought out by the Chinese
In an interesting article in The Economist a number of western executive are interviewed about their experience as their company was bought or merged with a Chinese company. The article offers a glimpse of the culture of negotiation and decision making in China.

Chinas next 5 year plan
This article gives a brief overview of the main points of the coming Chinese 5 year plan - from 2011. Some of elements are huge continued investments in energy efficiency, increasing the domestic consumption, amending increasing equality -  and an average annual economic growth target of 7%.

Innovation in emerging markets
An survey in the Economist gives an overview of how innovation in emerging markets in many cases creates superior results than what the traditional industries in the west can come up with.

The China challenge
Booz & co's quarterly magazine Strategy+Business has a good overview of some of the challenges that the rise of Chinas industry presents the traditional industries of Europe and the US. For global companies, ignoring China is not an option. But they must adapt their strategies to the country’s changing markets, increased competition, and shifting government priorities.

Chinese innovation - hype?
In november 2009 Business Week magazine took a thorough look at the state of Chinese innovation. The article claims that Chinese companies may not be as good at innovation as most believe. Instead, the article warns of short coming new ideas and advanced products.