A very warm welcome to your visiting the website of China Association for Management of Technology (CAMOT)!

CAMOT that we launched in early 2006, with great support from IAMOT and Tsinghua University, has now become genuinely an international academic network organisation, which attracts academics, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers globally in the area of strategic management of technology and innovation in China and the West. CAMOT has been well positioned because we have chosen an important topic that not only China has been trying to better understand but also the other parts of world, such as, European Union and the US, are much interested in. CAMOT is a little boat, which rises as China's status rises.

2011 has been eventful. The debt crises threaten the very future of the Euro while the financial bubble bursting still overshadows the slow recovery of the US economy. The earthquake, tsunami and nuclear radiation in Japan, the uprising in Middle East and North Africa in particular, Libya, present un-certainty and un-stability. The global economy is at a cross-road. In the meantime, Japan and Europe are feeling not comfortable with China’s pro-active merger and acquisition. The major fear for this is if China could embrace the technology-led firms, such as Volvo, and manage properly the technology and innovation capacity among multinational companies. China has been seeking innovation framework and implementation strategy for sustaining and upgrading its economy. Some observers point out that China, being second largest science and technology thesis producer, runs the second largest economy next to the US after succeeding Japan in 2010. Goldman Sachs predicated that the Chinese GDP will exceeds the US by 2027 while the World Bank economist forecasts that Chinese economy continues to create wonder and surpasses US economy in about twenty years of time by 2030. IMF produces even bolder forecast that China’s GDP will exceeds the US by 2016. However economic scale and innovation capacity are different concepts. The complexity of China’s innovation strategy has not been well understood and explored, which not only pre-occupies Chinese politicians and entrepreneurs but also leads to the anxiety and misconception of the Western counterparts.

International technology transfer can be beneficial for China and US and EU. Successful technology transfer can translate China’s technology innovation strategy into achievable objectives and leverages innovation capacity building. Due to fear of losing competitive advantage, it is not surprising that transferor will block the channels of technology transfer if the transferor feels uncertainty of IP protection. Both the transferor and the transferee will lose once the blockage occurs. However the major concern from the transferor is that China has yet to establish an appropriate and robust IP implementation strategy, which is widely recognized as strategic approach in un-blocking the channel of technology transfer and boosting science and technology innovation. IP strategy is the key in ensuring smooth technology and knowledge transfer. It assumes great importance in the ability of countries, companies and individual to embrace technological strategies and changes in order to advance their competitive advantages in a global marketplace. It leverages the economic growth and development in both developed and developing world.

We believe that competitive advantage can be delivered through strategic management of technology and innovation. Our goal is to inspire current and strategic thinking, provoke creative and innovative ideas, provide a platform for exploring linkages and mechanisms, and explore modes of collaboration between China and the Western countries. Our intent is to bring together academics, researchers, corporate leaders, policy makers, managers, and senior students for exchange of ideas, research findings, current experiences, best practices, and lessons learned. The intellectual lens will rotate around addressing various questions with the thematic content of ‘East-West” modes of collaboration in this field.

Dr Richard Li-Hua

Founder and current President of China Association for Management of Technology

Professor of Strategic Management and Development, Sunderland Business School, The University of Sunderland, The United Kingdom

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CAMOT Endorsement

of Academic Impact Initiative of United Nations

Professor Richard Li-Hua