‘Autocracy 2.0’: How China Reinvented Tyranny for the Innovation Age
China's 'smart authoritarianism' blends state-led innovation, digital surveillance, and selective economic openness to become the world's tenth most-innovative economy, says expert Jennifer Lind.
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Global Innovation Index 2025: China at 10, India's 38th Rank Exposes Persistent R&D Gaps
With China entering the top 10 and Germany slipping to 11, the Global Innovation Index 2025 shows a major reshuffle. India holds its 38th rank but remains stalled due to low R&D investment and weak industry–science integration, despite strong talent and startup activity.
How China Achieved Innovation Without Freedom
Though China remains a one-party state that disappears dissidents and censors ideas, it has vaulted past Japan, Germany, and France to become the world’s tenth most-innovative economy. It owes this achievement – which was long considered impossible – to a pioneering strategy of "smart authoritarianism."
“The European dimension is fundamental. Because in a world of large blocs, the Union allows us to compete better.” That has been the message that King Philip VI left in his closing speech of the ceremony for the award of the Rei Jaume I Awards. He has done so, as in response to the demands expressed this Monday by the winners of greater European competitiveness that will allow us not to lose the pulse of innovation in a strongly accelerated worl…
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