Industrial Policy and Technology

Research and Insights

Robot toys are seen in Yiwu Wholesale Market in Yiwu, China

The trade-offs of innovating in China in times of global technology rivalry

Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau

Jacob Gunter

Report

Jun 24, 2025

China in 25: China and the Israel-Iran war + Basic research + EU-China summit

Podcast

Jun 20, 2025

How China’s biotech is changing global ecosystems (Testimony before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission)

Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau

External publication

Jun 05, 2025

Workers assemble industrial robots at a robot manufacturer in Nanjing city in east China's Jiangsu province.

Beyond Made in China 2025 – China’s dream of broad-based industrial greatness

Alexander Brown

Max J. Zenglein

Comment

Jun 04, 2025

China’s overcapacities, with Max J. Zenglein and Jacob Gunter

Podcast

May 02, 2025

A billboard advertising U.S. beef at a supermarket in Beijing

China's economy improves as it braces for external shock

Max J. Zenglein

François Chimits

Economic Indicators

Apr 25, 2025

Workers make medical infusion sets for export at a workshop in Huai 'an City, Jiangsu Province, China

Lab leader, market ascender: China's rise in biotechnology

Alexander Brown

Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau

Report

Apr 24, 2025

An illustration shows the Deepseek APP download page displayed on a smartphone.

DeepSeek’s success masks China’s weakening innovation model

Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau

Comment

Apr 07, 2025

A staff member works at the State Key Laboratory of Public Big Data at Guizhou University.

Greater secrecy in science and tech makes China’s progress harder to decipher

Antonia Hmaidi

Comment

Mar 20, 2025

Google New York headquarters in New York City

Google antitrust probe puts Beijing’s software “nationalism” in the spotlight

Rebecca Arcesati

Comment

Mar 20, 2025

Experts on Industrial Policy and Technology

Rebecca Arcesati

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Technology; digital policy; artificial intelligence

Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau

Head of Program

Strategic emerging industries; Research collaboration; Tech transfer

Alexander Brown

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Industrial policy; foreign economic policy

Jacob Gunter

Head of Program

China's political economy; Industrial policy; Innovation

Andreas Mischer

Analyst

Foreign investment; industrial policy and Chinese automotive industry

Antonia Hmaidi

Senior Analyst

Geopolitics of technology; semiconductors; data science; hacking

Wendy Chang

Analyst

China's tech companies, digital ecosystem and emerging technologies including AI

Events

MERICS Members Day 2023

Oct. 10, 2023

Berlin

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MERICS Roundtable: AI Entanglements - Assessing the Tradeoffs of European-Chinese Collaboration

Sep. 27, 2023

Berlin

Industrial Policy and Technology

Research and Insights

The trade-offs of innovating in China in times of global technology rivalry

China in 25: China and the Israel-Iran war + Basic research + EU-China summit

How China’s biotech is changing global ecosystems (Testimony before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission)

Beyond Made in China 2025 – China’s dream of broad-based industrial greatness

China’s overcapacities, with Max J. Zenglein and Jacob Gunter

China's economy improves as it braces for external shock

Lab leader, market ascender: China's rise in biotechnology

DeepSeek’s success masks China’s weakening innovation model

Greater secrecy in science and tech makes China’s progress harder to decipher

Google antitrust probe puts Beijing’s software “nationalism” in the spotlight

Experts on Industrial Policy and Technology

Rebecca Arcesati

Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau

Alexander Brown

Jacob Gunter

Andreas Mischer

Antonia Hmaidi

Wendy Chang

Events

MERICS Members Day 2023

MERICS Roundtable: AI Entanglements - Assessing the Tradeoffs of European-Chinese Collaboration

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