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Tweets from The Economist Innovation Summit

The Economist Innovation Summit 2016 was held on Sept. 6 in Hong Kong. I was honored to speak at the event.

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While attending the event, I live-tweeted highlights from the event. The following tweets have been getting many impressions and retweets:

Markus Steilemann: Innovation is about invention that makes money, and China is doing great in that

Victor Foo: innovation should be focusing on solving local market problems.

David Chao: Government directed programs never do well. Let the markets take paths

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September 22nd, 2016 | Tags: , | Category: China - general, Event / Speaking | Comments are closed

Will China Become the World’s Innovation Hotbed?

I am honored to be invited to speak at the Economist Innovation Summit in Hong Kong on Sept. 6, 2016.

InnovationSummitThe Summit gathers entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and industry luminaries to examine how Chinese firms have evolved from copycats to innovators, and what impact they will have on the rest of the world.

A couple of years ago, I wrote an article Why China Will Lead Innovation in Social and Mobile Commerce. Clearly, Chinese firms are innovating in many other fields as well. An Economist article indicates that:

In fields from gene editing to big-data analytics to 5G mobile telephony, Chinese experts are now among the world’s best. Sunway TaihuLight (pictured), a supercomputer made using only local computer chips, is five times as fast as the best American rival…. WeChat, a social-media and payments platform with 700m monthly active users, is more useful and fun than Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp put together.

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August 4th, 2016 | Tags: , , | Category: China - general, China's middle class | Comments are closed