TPAC researchers examine the rising technological competitiveness of Chinese industries through a series of three high technology indicators. The indicators include a traditional high technology indicator HTI(T), which has been produced on 33 countries since the 1980s and which shows that China has surpassed the US as the top-ranking economy in 2007. The second is a statistics only, high technology indicator HTI(S), which is a modification of the first indicator; and the third indicator is the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) of the World Economic Forum. All three indicators point to the dramatic increase in the technology based economic competiveness of China . However the GCI presents a much more conservative view of the increase in technological competiveness when compared to the HTI(T). Read the complete artile by Alan Porter and co-authors
