The Levin Institute’s Center for Science, Technology & Innovation in China (CSTIC) has been created in response to the need to better understand China’s increased prominence in the fields of science and technology as well as to study the impact and implications of S&T developments in the PRC in terms of such key issues as global competition, sustainable growth, international security, and worldwide S&T progress. The Center serves as a platform for bringing together experts and scholars from around the world including from China.

The Center conducts research, offers graduate and professional training, and promotes cooperation focused on analyzing Chinese capabilities, resources, strategies and policies related to science, technology, innovation and relevant fields in China. Based on solid working relations with the China’s Ministry of Science & Technology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Center helps to facilitate access to critical statistical materials, data, and research reports from China and elsewhere on a continuous basis.

GOALS

The Center focuses on four core activities:

1. Research: The Center will assess China’s strategic national research programs, its current and future research and development (R&D) capabilities, and the quantity and caliber of the science and engineering talent pool. Areas of study include university-industry cooperation and collaboration in R&D, regional S&T developments, the evolving role of high-tech zones and clusters, and the study of comparative S&T developments regarding China and India and the other economies in the Pacific Rim.

2. Graduate Student Education and Training: The Levin Institute offers Masters level programs in global technology management, comparative S&T policy studies, international S&T relations, and science, technology and society studies. It also serves as the host for Ph.D students (6-12 month visits) who seek to work with some of the in-residence experts and visiting scholars.

3. Policy-related Programs, Outreach and Scholarly Dissemination: The Center serves as an active platform for addressing pressing commercial, public policy and academic issues with regard to the development of Chinese science and technology and its global implications.

4. China Studies and Social Science Link: The Center builds collaborative relationships with China study centers and think tanks in the US and abroad to promote the exchange of ideas and research.

Partnership
The Center seeks a variety of educational partnerships and alliances; it also serves as a high quality resource for industry as well as government in assessing emerging S&T developments in China. It is governed by an international advisory board that reflects its multiple constituencies -- academia, government, business and NGOs.

LEADERSHIP

DR. DENIS FRED SIMON
Provost and VP for Academic Affairs, The Levin Institute
Director, CSTIC
Denis Fred Simon, Ph.D. holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management, and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and served as Dean of the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has held senior positions in two of the world’s leading management consulting firms in China and is an internationally recognized authority on the global management of technology. Dr. Simon has written numerous books and scholarly works on the growth of technology in the Pacific basin. He is fluent in Mandarin.

International Advisory Board Members
Dr. Erik Baark, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HK)
Dr. Cong Cao, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Dr. William A. Fischer, IMD (Lausanne)
Dr. Jon Sigurdson, Stockholm School of Economics (Stockholm)
Dr. Richard P. Suttmeier, University of Oregon (Eugene)
Dr. Zhou Yuan, National Research Center for S&T for Development (Beijing)
Dr. Yongwook Jun, Chung Ang University (Seoul)