On May 17, 2010, MIIS faculty member Ambassador Alan Wolff, Chair of the Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy for the Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) Board at The National Academies, delivered welcoming remarks to a delegation of senior Chinese government officials at a conference at the National Academies on US-China Cooperation in Science and Technology.
Since June 1965, the US and China have benefitted from 70 years of science cooperation. During World War II, the U.S. allocated precious air cargo space to ferrying scientific instruments, materials, and current treatises over the Himalayas from India to Chongqing so that Chinese scientists in exile could continue their work during Japan’s occupation of China.
In his speech, Ambassador Wolff states, “There are many similarities between the innovation goals and policies of the United States and China. Each wishes to enhance the prospects for successfully initiating, developing, modifying, and commercializing new technologies. [Both countries also] want a substantial part of all stages of the innovation system to be located within their own national boundaries.”
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