Simon Johnson And Jonathan Ruane — China, the Innovation Dragon

Given its own policies, and those of the US, China is on track to become the world’s innovation leader. By the end of 2018, it will likely be apparent to all just how quickly and easily this latest chapter in the Chinese success story will be written.

China poised to leapfrog the West?

Project Syndicate
China, the Innovation Dragon

Simon Johnson, former chief economist of the IMF, is a professor at MIT Sloan, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and co-founder of a leading economics blog, The Baseline Scenario, and Jonathan Ruane, co-founder of the Global Business of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics course at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, is a lecturer in the Global Economics and Management group at MIT and an adjunct professor at Trinity College Dublin