Pushes to globalize science must not threaten local innovations in developing countries, argues Lan Xue.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
References
Leadbeater, C. & Wilsdon, J. The Atlas of Ideas: How Asian Innovation Can Benefit Us All (Demos, 2007).
Xie, Y. et al. Good submissions went overseas — Chinese S&T journals could not keep up with their overseas peers Chinese Youth Daily, 25 June 2008.
Sulston, J. & Stiglitz, J. Science is being held back by outdated laws, The Times (5 July 2008).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Additional information
See Editorial, page 367 , and News Feature, page 382 . For a podcast and more China see http://www.nature.com/news/specials/china/ . To discuss this and other commentaries in the Innovation series visit: http://tinyurl.com/5uolx2 .
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Xue, L. The prizes and pitfalls of progress. Nature 454, 398–401 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/454398a
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/454398a
- Springer Nature Limited
This article is cited by
-
Measuring the contributions of Chinese scholars to the research field of systems biology from 2005 to 2013
Scientometrics (2017)
-
Success in publication by graduate students in psychiatry in Brazil: an empirical evaluation of the relative influence of English proficiency and advisor expertise
BMC Medical Education (2014)
-
Scientific English: A Program for Addressing Linguistic Barriers of International Research Trainees in the United States
Journal of Cancer Education (2011)