Edited by the late Charles Feinstein, formerly Chichele Professor of Economic History and Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK and Christopher Howe OBE, Emeritus Professor, Chinese Business and Management , School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

• Contents: Introduction (C. Howe) 1. Rethinking Technology Transfers: Incentives, Institutions and Knowledge-based Industrial Development (P.A. David) 2. Technology and Competitiveness in Asia: Case Studies in Japanese Technology Transfer with Implications for the People’s Republic of China (C. Howe) 3. Technical Progress and Technology Transfer in a Centrally Planned Economy: The Experience of the USSR, 1917–87 (C. Feinstein) 4. China’s International Technology Transfer: The Current Situation, Problems and Future Prospects (X. Jianping) 5. Using Imported Technology to Transform Existing Enterprises in China (D. Jingping) 6. The Adoption of Innovations and the Assimilations of Improvements (J. Enos) 7. Chinese Government Policy Towards Science and Technology and its Influence on the Technical Development of Industrial Enterprises (J. Xiaojuan) 8. Sino-Japanese Technology Transfer and its Effects (T. Shiguo) 9. Technology Development and Export Performance: Is China a Frog or a Goose? (D. Wall and Y. Xiangshuo) 10. Economic Growth and Technology Transfer in China (Z. Youjing) 11. The Transfer of Process Technologies in a Comparative Perspective (N. von Tunzelmann) Index

'An attractive feature of the book is that the papers deal with both contemporary and historical aspects of technology transfer in China and other countries . . . Altogether this volume is a valuable source of information about China's rapid economic growth during the past two decades, the impact of S&T policies to industrial and technological development of developing countries in general, and the importance of foreign direct investment for the development of domestic technological capabilities.'