1.1 China Has Significantly Improved Its Innovation Ranking in the Last Decade and Now It Is Featured in the Top 25 List Globally

1.2 Research Objectives and Scope

1.3 The Chinese Innovation Puzzle?

1.4 Innovation Is an Outcome of Close Collaboration between Multiple Stakeholders

2.1 Global Innovation Index (GII) Ranked 127 Countries Based on 7 Parameters Covering 5 Innovation Inputs and 2 Outputs

2.2 Global Innovation Index Ranks China at Number 22

2.3 China Has Improved its Ranking on Global Innovation Index by 7 Places between 2014 and 2017

2.4 USA, UK, Germany, Japan, France, and Canada Ranked Ahead of China based on Global Innovation Index

2.5 China is Ranked at 31st and 11th and Based on Innovation Input and Output Parameters Respectively

3.1 Parameters Used for Bloomberg Innovation Index

3.2 Bloomberg Innovation Index Ranks China at Number 21

4.1 World Economic Forum’s R&D-Based Innovation Index Ranked China at Number 36

5.1 Parameters Used for GIPC IP Index

5.2 The US Chamber of Commerce's GIPC IP Index Ranked China at Number 27

6.1 Based on GERD (As % of GDP) China Ranked 15th

6.2 China Has Significantly Increased Its GERD (As % of GDP) but Still Lags behind USA, Japan, and Germany

6.3 China Increased its GERD (As % of GDP) by 58% during the last 10 Years

7.1.1 China, USA, and Japan Are Top 3 Patent Offices Based On Patenting Activity Globally

7.1.2 In 2015, China Became the First Office to Receive a Million Applications in a Single Year

7.1.3 Chinese Patent Office Witnessed 317.18% Increase in Resident Patent Applications per 100 Billion USD GDP between 2005 and 2015

7.1.4 Chinese Patent Office Witnessed 880.56% Increase in Resident Patent Applications per Million Population between 2005 and 2015

7.1.5 ZTE and Huawei, Telecommunication Equipment Suppliers Based in China, Were Leading PCT Applicants Globally in 2016

7.2.1 China Ranked at 14th Position Based on Quality of Research Publications as Measured by Citable Documents H-index

7Tokyo-Yokohama, Shenzhen-Hong Kong, and San Jose-San Francisco Are Top 3 Inventive Clusters Based on Patenting Activity

8.1 Utility Model Provides an Affordable Route for Protection of Inventions and Are Well Adopted by Chinese Inventors

8.2 China, Germany, and France Are the Only Countries among the Top 10 Economies Which Allow Utility Models along with Patents

8.3 Patent Quantity vs Quality Issue in China

9.1 What Factors are Driving China’s Improvement in its Ranking?

9.2 What Should China Do to Improve its R&D Focused Innovation Ranking Further?

9.3 R&D-Focused Innovation System in China - SWOT Analysis

9.4 China’s Entry into Top 25 List Based on Innovation – What does it Mean for other leading Economies?

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10.1 Acronyms