Abstract
COVID-19 has deep impacts on the already pressed world, where the existing vulnerabilities due to human and climate induced risks were prominent. However, the pandemic also provided ample opportunities for innovation and technology development. It is often said that the last 12 years of innovation is done in the last 2 years. China is no exception to that. With an already high investment in technology development, COVID-19 also urged China to reshape its new and emerging technology regimes through appropriate governance mechanisms, and innovation in technology development. This chapter will cover some of these technology developments as well as its governance mechanism to develop a technology and innovation ecosystem in post COVID-19 context in China.
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Hua, J., Shaw, R. (2022). Technology Landscape in Post COVID-19 Era: Example from China. In: Kanbara, S., Shaw, R., Kato, N., Miyazaki, H., Morita, A. (eds) Society 5.0, Digital Transformation and Disasters. Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5646-1_11
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