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E-mobility in China: Chance or daydream?

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  • Tagscherer, Ulrike
  • Frietsch, Rainer

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China is the fastest growing car market in the world. Both, government and industry alike have high hopes for the paradigm shift in mobility towards electric cars. China's industry might be able to catch up or leap-frog, once electric cars have hit the roads. Taking the question if and how paradigm shifts occur as a starting point, this paper describes and assesses the current policies in electro mobility in China and puts them in relation to China's scientific and technological capabilities. The results show that a huge amount of public funding is involved, though spread over many programs and too many provinces. Though the scientific capabilities seem to be very promising, the tech-nological capabilities - applying science to real-world issues - seem to lag behind. These findings let us conclude that the leap-frogging in mobility might not occur in the way the most optimistic spectators might want to see.

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  • Tagscherer, Ulrike & Frietsch, Rainer, 2014. "E-mobility in China: Chance or daydream?," Discussion Papers "Innovation Systems and Policy Analysis" 40, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI).
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    1. Kroll, Henning & Frietsch, Rainer, 2022. "China's changing role in global science and innovation," Discussion Papers "Innovation Systems and Policy Analysis" 73, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI).
    2. Qu Zhao, 2018. "Electromobility research in Germany and China: structural differences," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 117(1), pages 473-493, October.
    3. Zhao Qu & Shanshan Zhang, 2020. "References to literature from the business sector in patent documents: a case study of charging technologies for electric vehicles," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 124(2), pages 867-886, August.
    4. Frietsch, Rainer, 2020. "Current R&I policy: The future development of China's R&I system," Discussion Papers "Innovation Systems and Policy Analysis" 63, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI).
    5. Tilman Altenburg & Eike W. Schamp & Ankur Chaudhary, 2016. "The emergence of electromobility: Comparing technological pathways in France, Germany, China and India," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 43(4), pages 464-475.

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