Socialisation of Modern Science in Imperial China by Kai Wang
The industrialized civilization from the West has intruded into traditional Chinese society since... more The industrialized civilization from the West has intruded into traditional Chinese society since the Opium Wars, causing the components and roles of the gentry social status group altered over the years. During the Self-strengthening Movement (1860-1895), the newly-risen knowledge professionals as exemplified by Shou Xu (1818-1884) attained membership of the social status group of ‘scientific gentry’, functioning socially by practising modern science and technology, wherein the socialization of modern science and technology in China was launched. Having been employed by ‘scientific gentry’ in integrating society and leading the organization of public affairs, modern science and technology gained its regulating power over the social members in social life via the channels of traditional Chinese behavioural norms, cultural values, and social institution.
Studies of R&D in China's Biotechnology Industry by Kai Wang
The high-speed growth of China’s biotechnology industry during the past 20 years presents an exce... more The high-speed growth of China’s biotechnology industry during the past 20 years presents an excellent opportunity to examine its overall evaluation and governance from the perspective of science and technology policies. Although China’s biotechnology industry has achieved tremendous extension both in scale and structure, the strengths it has gained from achievements in research and development activities have been significantly weakened in relation to processes of commercialization. After examining the definition of China’s biotechnology industry as well as its evolution, the authors of this paper employ Actor-Networks Theory as a basic theoretical framework to reveal how China’s biotechnology industry develops in the form of evolving networks within the country’s social context and to identify what kinds of relationships exist among the relevant factors. Our hope is to provide guiding insights for improving the governance of China’s biotechnology industry both in policy and in management practices.
This article explores the research patterns and organizational features within R&D sector in Chin... more This article explores the research patterns and organizational features within R&D sector in China’s biotechnology industry, delineating the innovation in knowledge production and industrial development. The more recent development of China’s biotechnology industry is briefly examined from an interdisciplinary perspective, whilst a set of salient features embodied by social actors are envisaged as have so far strongly shaped the market-based, commercially driven mode of scientific knowledge production in the R&D activities. Furthermore, this mode serves as a premise to the innovation of the interaction-network. The implications derived from this analytical work shed a new light upon policy-making both at the level of S&T governance and in the management practice in China’s biotechnology industry.
Papers by Kai Wang
Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 2009
The high-speed growth of China's biotechnology industry during the past twenty years presents an ... more The high-speed growth of China's biotechnology industry during the past twenty years presents an excellent opportunity to examine its overall evaluation and governance from the perspective of science and technology policies. Although China's biotechnology industry has achieved tremendous extension both in scale and structure, the strengths it has gained from achievements in research and development activities have been significantly weakened in relation to processes of commercialization. After examining the definition of China's biotechnology industry as well as its evolution, the authors of this paper employ Actor-Networks Theory as a basic theoretical framework to reveal how China's biotechnology industry develops in the form of evolving networks within the country's social context and to identify what kinds of relationships exist among the relevant factors. Our hope is to provide guiding insights for improving the governance of China's biotechnology industry both in policy and in management practices.
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Socialisation of Modern Science in Imperial China by Kai Wang
Studies of R&D in China's Biotechnology Industry by Kai Wang
Papers by Kai Wang