Industrial policy, techno-nationalism and Industry 4.0: China-USA technology war

Autor: ANTONIO CARLOS DIEGUES, JOSÉ EDUARDO ROSELINO
Jazyk: English<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Vol 43, Iss 1, Pp 5-25 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1809-4538
0101-3157
DOI: 10.1590/0101-31572023-3247
Popis: ABSTRACT This paper aims to analyze the evolution of the technology war between China and the USA in a context of exacerbation of techno-nationalist strategies for industrial and technological development. This analysis refers mainly to the Chinese strategy to deploy Industry 4.0 and the implications derived from US imposed restrictions on Chinese efforts to develop indigenous technologies that are central in the forthcoming paradigm. The hypothesis is that such policies, by boosting Industry 4.0, aim to create a new techno-economic paradigm and thus reconfigure the bases of inter-capitalist and interstate competition. The main contribution to the literature is providing an analysis of the implications of the technology war between China and the USA in different layers of the Industry 4.0 techno-economic paradigm, in addition to the mainstream debate about the transition to 5G communication networks.
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