Policy, Regulation and Innovation in China's Electricity and Telecom Industries

Loren Brandt is the Noranda Chair Professor of Economics and International Trade at the University of Toronto. With Thomas G. Rawski, he was co-editor and a major contributor to China's Great Economic Transformation (Cambridge, 2008). His current research focuses on issues of industrial upgrading in China, inequality dynamics, and China's long-run economic growth and structural change. Thomas G. Rawski is emeritus Professor of Economics and History at the University of Pittsburgh. Recent publications include Tales from the Development Frontier (2013), which he co-authored. With Loren Brandt, he was co-editor and a major contributor to China's Great Economic Transformation (Cambridge, 2008). His research focuses on the development and modern history of China's economy, including studies of China's reform mechanism and achievements.

• 1. Policy, regulation and innovation in China's electricity and telecom industries Loren Brandt and Thomas G. Rawski; 2. Electricity and telecom regulation: China in context Irene S. Wu; 3. Local government and firm innovation: China's clean energy sector Margaret M. Pearson; 4. Electricity systems integration challenges: a local perspective Michael Davidson; 5. When global technology meets local standards: re-assessing China's communications policy in the age of platform innovation Eric Thun and Timothy Sturgeon; 6. State grid: an entrepreneurial and innovative state enterprise Yi-chong Xu; 7. Growth, upgrading and limited catch-up in China's semiconductor industry Douglas B. Fuller; 8. Growth, upgrading and excess cost in China's electric power sector Thomas G. Rawski; 9. China's development of wind and solar power Loren Brandt and Luhang Wang; 10. Capability upgrading and catch-up in civil nuclear power: the case of China Ravi Madhavan, Thomas G. Rawski and Qingfeng Tian.