Developing technological entrepreneurship in China

In this paper, the authors discuss findings from an on-going research effort by a multi-disciplinary team from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in collaboration with faculty and students from Tianjin University. The on-going goal of the research is to analyze how and why foreign firms enter the PRC and document how business practices are changing in the PRC. Part of their initiative is to study managerial and technical entrepreneurship as it is developing in China. For this paper, they have categorized the evolution of the Chinese economy into five epochs. These epochs are useful for analyzing the interaction between technological development and entrepreneurial initiative