Registration Open for Summer Training Workshop on the Relationship Between National Security and Technology in China, 4-10 August 2014
I can’t recommend this great event highly enough—it is an essential experience for anyone who wants to understand critical Chinese military-technological dynamics and trends. It singlehandedly validates the wisdom of establishing the Minerva Program. Be sure to register now while there’s still space available!
2014 Summer Training Workshop on the Relationship Between
National Security and Technology in China
August 4–10, 2014
UC San Diego
La Jolla, California
2014 APPLICATION AVAILABLE SOON. CONTACT SITC TO EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST AND RECEIVE THE APPLICATION FORMS.
Project SITC’s summer training course at UC San Diego is open to advanced graduate students, junior faculty, and early- to mid-career analysts and provides a comprehensive overview of the development, linkages, and roles that science, technology, and innovation play in China’s national security. The workshop examines the relationship between national security, technology, innovation, and China’s rise as a world power. Of central interest is how China is mobilizing and applying its economic, political, strategic, corporate, financial, intellectual, and scientific capabilities in conjunction with leveraging external resources to achieve its grand ambition of catching up technologically with the world’s advanced powers within the next 1–2 generations.
Course Content
Topics include:
- The historical relationship between security and technology in China
- Chinese grand strategic thinking on technology and security
- The political economy of security and technology
- The reform of the defense industry
- Integration between the civilian and defense economies
- The nature and structure of the Chinese national innovation system
- Military end-user drivers in shaping technology innovation
- China’s technology modernization efforts in comparative perspective
- Prospects for China’s technological catching up
- Methodological approaches and analytical tools in examining the relationship between Chinese science, technology, innovation and security
The workshop concludes with a two-day conference on the role of personalities, talent, and the human capital base in Chinese defense science, technology, and and industrial development.
This course is part of the Project on the Study of Innovation and Technology in China (Project SITC), an IGCC initiative on understanding China’s emerging science and technology capabilities.
For more information about the workshop, please contact Christine Burns.
