Shuanping Dai is Junior Professor at the Institute for East Asian Studies and Mercator School of Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Markus Taube is Professor of East Asian Economic Studies/China in the Mercator School of Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Director of the IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen and Co-Director of the Confucius Institute Metropolis Ruhr, Germany.

Institutional Foundations of China's Quest for Innovation: Introduction. 1 Innovation Depends. Between Sustainable Change and Destructive Over-Turbulence. On the complex "deep structure" of innovation. 2 Technology, Social Beliefs, and National System of Innovation Policies: Reflections on China's Innovation Policies after 2006. 3 China's Research and Development Sector: Progress and Outlook. 4 Technological Capabilities in China: Patterns of specialization towards a knowledge intensive economy. 5 Economic transition and innovation development in China from an Evolutionary Economics Perspective. 6 Architecture-based Innovation Strategies in the Development of China's Passenger Vehicle Sector. 7 Moral capital and organizational legitimacy: Evidence from the private sector in China. 8 The interdependency of innovation obstacles in Chinese manufacturing firms. 9 Innovation in the Digital Age: An Opportunity for China's Catching Up. 10 Realizing Stretch Goals via Exploratory Bricolage: The Case of Chinese Entrepreneurial Firms. 11 Open Innovation Ecosystem and Traditional Industrial Cluster Upgrading: A Case Study on the Special Cable Industry Cluster in Gaogou Town, Anhui Province. 12 An "Iron Triangle" in Northeastern China: Revisit the New Northeast Phenomenon and its Innovation Ecosystem.