China's Technological Leapfrogging and Economic Catch-up A Schumpeterian Perspective

Keun Lee, Professor of Economics, Seoul National University

Keun Lee is a globally recognized scholar on economics of catch-up. Currently, he is a professor of Economics at the Seoul National University, Fellow of the CIFAR (Canada) program on Innovation, Equity and Prosperity, the Vice-chairman of the National Economic Advisory Council (for the President of
Korea), and the director of the Center for Economic Catch-up. He is an editor of Research Policy, and an associate editor of Industrial and Corporate Change. He served as the President of the International Schumpeter Society, a member of the Committee for Development Policy of UN, and a council
member of the World Economic Forum.
He is the winner of the 2014 Schumpeter Prize for his monograph on Schumpeterian Analysis of Economic Catch-up (2013 Cambridge Univ. Press), as well as the 2019 Kapp Prize from the EAEPE, for his article on national innovation systems. He obtained Ph.D. in economics from the University of
California, Berkeley, with his thesis on the Chinese economy.

1. Introducing Schumpeter to China
Part One: The Origins of Catch-up and the Early Effort
2. The Origins of Technological Catch-up in China: The Birth of Huawei and ZTE
3. Origins and Growth of Big Businesses in China
4. Role of S&T Institutions for Limited Catch-up : Semi-conductor Industry
Part Two: Assessing the Catch-up in a Comparative Perspective
5. Assessing China's Economic Catch-up in a Comparative Perspective: Beijing Consensus, Washington Consensus, East Asian Consensus
6. Catching-up and Leapfrogging in Key Manufacturing sectors: A comparison with Korea
7. Catch-up in IT Services and the Role of the Government in China
8. Huawei's Leapfrogging to overtake Ericsson
Part Three: Prospects of Catch-up and Leapfrogging
9. Possibility of a Middle-Income Trap in China
10. Thucydides Trap, GVC and Future of China