The New Silk Road: R&D Networks, Knowledge Diffusions, and Open Innovation
This Special Issue of the journal R&D Management aims to highlight the need to expand our understanding of new paradigms for cultivating innovation development along the “New Silk Road” enabled by the “Belt and Road” initiative (BRI) of the Chinese government that connects traditional innovation leaders and those catching-up in Europe and Asia. This issue attempts to develop an analytical framework to study the BRI based on six research articles focused around three different topics. The first topic is the innovation catch-up opportunities enabled by the BRI; the second is the new collaboration models of BRI, and the third is the new technology-transfer practices of BRI. One of the articles in the issue is “Open Innovation with Chinese Characteristics: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective” by Henry Chesbrough et al.
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