China may be susceptible, suggests Dr Cong Cao, a specialist on the sociology of science in China at the State University of New York, because academics expect to advance according to the number, not the quality, of their published works.
Then there is the increased investment in science and technology in China, which has occurred earlier than international experience would suggest.
Prof Yang Yuguan and two students at the China University of Political Science and Law make a bold call in Hong Kong Beijing-backed newspaper Ta Kung Pao for China to retaliate against Pyongyang and immediately repeal a mutual assistance treaty signed in 1961.
He also started the Morningside Center of Mathematics in Beijing in 1995 and the Center of Mathematical Science in Zhejiang University in Hangzhou--100 miles southwest of Shanghai and one of China's oldest universities--in 2002.
In China, strong math and science backgrounds are prerequisites for admittance to the best universities or to be hired by foreign corporations operating there.
Novartis does have a big research lab in China, but this is partly because the company wants to participate in the science going on there.
FORBES: The Most Innovative Countries In Biology And Medicine
In addition to your growing economy, we admire China's extraordinary commitment to science and research -- a commitment borne out in everything from the infrastructure you build to the technology you use.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Holds Town Hall with Chinese Youth
China credits its growing capacity in science, technology and innovation (STI) for much of its meteoric economic rise in recent years.
Complete a major fact-finding mission comparing science funding strategies and innovation policies in Europe, the United States, China, Japan, India, Australia and South Africa.
UNESCO: House | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Without sharing costs and technology, it is not at all clear, for instance, that China will invest in the holy grail of climate science: funnelling greenhouse gases underground.
Compare China and Europe: as of the Year 1000, China was way ahead of Europe in all kinds of science and technology.
The 3m-long skeleton, found on an expedition to China's Gobi desert, is described in the journal Science.
In China, 56% of graduate college degrees are in hard science and engineering.
He now has two diagnostic chips, for infectious disease and tissue transplantation, in trials at Beijing hospitals, and is spearheading a drive to link most of China's biochip expertise under one roof in a Beijing science park next year.
With India and China realising that their futures also depend on their investment in science, Lord Drayson's argument is that it may well be time for the research community to think about where its research strengths lie, and to prioritise investment in those areas.
It is precisely because of this conventional weakness, they say, that China has decided to leapfrog several generations of military science and invest heavily in missiles, space and new black arts like cyber-warfare.
China's universities churn out legions of science and technology graduates who specialise in subjects that have almost been forgotten in the West, such as mining or heavy engineering.
So we have made the largest investment in research and development, in basic research and science, in our history, because that's going to determine whether we can compete with China and India and Germany over the long term.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Talks with Virginia Families on the Economy | The White House
Plenty of people have pointed out that China produces more science and engineering graduates than the United States does, is catching up in patents, has overtaken America as the home of the auto and so on.
FORBES: Startups and StartUp America: Can They Really Restart America?
Bush renounced the Kyoto pact in March, saying it was based on questionable science and unfair because it exempts big developing countries like China and India.
Richard Suttmeier, a University of Oregon expert on Chinese science policy, said China hasn't figured out "the right formula" to pioneer new technologies in part because researchers are rewarded according to the number of academic papers they publish rather than the quality and novelty of their work.
China, Brazil, and India have thus initiated simultaneous catching-up processes in industry, science and technology.
Over 500, 000 people a year die in China alone due to air pollution, said Peter Manins, a scientist at Australia's federal science agency, CSIRO.
"Yau is like God in China, " says Tony Chan, the assistant director for mathematics and physical sciences at the National Science Foundation outside Washington, D.
应用推荐