There will always be a tendency for politics to push to protect or enhance ‘local innovation’ but it is in the longer-term interests of both the EU and China to encourage innovation collaboration.
Acknowledgments
This working paper examines EU–China relations in innovation as a basis for policy recommendations to 2025. It was produced as part of the EU–China 2025 project carried out by Bruegel, Chatham House, China Center for International Economic Exchanges and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The authors of this paper retain full responsibility for its content.
The authors would like to thank Chloe Sageman of the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House for her help in seeing this paper through to publication. The authors are also grateful to two peer reviewers for their comments.