The Imitation Paradox: Two Moral Universes and China's Path to Digital Modernity

Dr Xiaobai Shen is a Senior lecturer (Associate Professor) in International and Chinese Business, the University of Edinburgh Business School. Her primary research interests are in the area of Science & Technology and Innovation Studies with a particular emphasis on China. Currently, she is Co-investigator for the research project on "Isomorphism and Contextuality: national policies for science, competitiveness and innovation (Isomorphic differences) funded by DFF/FSE/FP2; the Principal-Investigator for the research project on Convergence or differentiation in I.P. protection strategies and business models? funded by the AHRC Centre for Digital Copyright and I.P. Research in China and CREATe, the RCUK Centre for Copyright & New Business Models in the Creative Economy. Previously, she has acted as an investigator for several large research projects in biotechnology and ICT, including G.M. technology in China: the ESRC INNOGEN programme, and CIPR - collective intellectual property rights project under PRIME, funded by an E.U. commission and EU-China ICT Standards partnership. She is associate editor of the Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management. She is the author of The Chinese Road to High Technology: the Case of Digital Telecommunications Switching Technology in the Economic Transition (Palgrave Macmillan 1999).