Author: Claudia Steinwender Shumin Qiu Pierre Azoulay

Over the past two decades, China has emerged as the world’s leading producer of scientific publications (Tollefson 2018, Xie and Freeman 2019, Brainard and Normile 2022). This rise has sparked concerns – particularly in the US and Europe – that Western countries are losing their long-held technological edge (The Economist 2024). These worries have been…