Cong Cao

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  Nottingham
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• Cong.Cao@nottingham.ac.uk
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Biography

Dr. Cong Cao (Ph.D. in Sociology, Columbia University) is Associate Professor and Reader at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham. Educated in both China and the U.S. and in both the natural and social sciences, he has worked at the University of Oregon, the National University of Singapore, and the State University of New York.

As one of the leading scholars in the studies of China's science, technology, and innovation, Dr. Cao is the author of China's Scientific Elite (London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004), a study of those Chinese scientists holding the elite membership in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and China's Emerging Technological Edge: Assessing the Role of High-End Talent (with Denis Fred Simon, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), the first in forty years to address these critical issues surrounding the quality, quantity, and effective utilization of China's human resources in science and technology. Most recently, Dr. Cao has embarked on a project examining China's biotechnology policy and participated in a study of the development of nanotechnology in China, both supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

Expertise Summary

Science, technology, and innovation policy; global talent and talent migration; technological entrepreneurship; sociology of science/social studies of science and technology; China studies; media studies; social science research methods.

Research Summary

Topic related to China: science, technology, and innovation; human resources in science and technology (HRST); brain drain, gain, and circulation; development and policy of biotechnology,… read more

Selected Publications

• CONG CAO, 2004. China's Scientific Elite. 1st. Routledge.
• SIMON, D.F. and CAO, C., 2009. China's emerging technological edge: assessing the role of high-end talent Cambridge University Press.
• LIU, F., SIMON, D.F., SUN, Y. and CAO, C., 2011. China's innovation policies: evolution, institutional structure, and trajectory Research Policy. 40(7), 917−931
• CONG CAO, 2004. Chinese Science and the "Nobel Prize Complex". Minerva. 42(2), 151−172.

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Current Research

Topic related to China: science, technology, and innovation; human resources in science and technology (HRST); brain drain, gain, and circulation; development and policy of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and green technology.

• CONG CAO, 2013. China's Brain Drain. In: QIANG ZHA, ed., Education in China: Educational History, Models, and Initiatives. Berkshire Publishing. (In Press.)
• CONG CAO, 2013. The Universal Values of Science and China's Nobel Prize Pursuit. Minerva. (In Press.)
• CONG CAO, RICHARD APPELBAUM and RACHEL PARKER, 2013. "Research Is High and the Market Is Far Away": Commercialization of Nanotechnology in China. Technology in Society. 35(1), 55−64.
• CONG CAO, 2013. Science Imperiled in the Cultural Revolution. In: CHUNJUAN NANCY WEI AND DARRYL E. BROCK, ed., Mr. Science and Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China. Lexington Books. 119−142.
• RICHARD P. SUTTMEIER, CONG CAO, AND DENIS FRED SIMON, 2013. Intellectual Origins of China’s Innovation Policy. In: BARRY NAUGHTON, ed., The Political Economy of Innovation in China. Cambridge University Press. (In Press.)
• YASUYUKI MOTOYAMA, CONG CAO, AND RICHARD APPELBAUM, 2013. Observing Regional Divergence of Chinese Nanotechnology Centers. Technological Forecasting & Social Change. (In Press.)
• CONG CAO, NING LI, XIA LI and LI LIU, 2013. Governance of China’s Science and Technology System and Its Implications for Further Reform. Science. (In Press.)
• RICHARD APPELBAUM, CONG CAO, RACHEL PARKER, AND YASUYUKI MOTOYAMA, 2012. Nanotechnology as Industrial Policy: China and the United States. In: BARBARA HERR HARTHORN AND JOHN W. MOHR, ed., The Social Life of Nanotechnology. Routledge. 111−133.
• APPELBAUM, R., PARKER, R. and CAO, C., 2011. Developmental state and innovation: nanotechnology in China Global Networks. 11(3), 298−314
• LIU, F., SIMON, D.F., SUN, Y. and CAO, C., 2011. China's innovation policies: evolution, institutional structure, and trajectory Research Policy. 40(7), 917−931
• RICHARD APPELBAUM, RACHEL PARKER, CONG CAO and GARY GEREFFI, 2011. China’s (Not So Hidden) Developmental State: Becoming a Leading Nanotechnology Innovator in the Twenty-first Century. In: FRED BLOCK and MATTHEW R. KELLER, eds., State of Innovation: The U.S. Government’s Role in Technology Development. Paradigm Publishers. 217−235.
• DENIS FRED SIMON and CONG CAO, 2009. China’s Future: Have Talent, Will Thrive. Issues in Science and Technology. 26(1), 19−42.
• RACHEL PARKER, CLARON RIDGE, CONG CAO and RICHARD APPELBAUM, 2009. China’s Nanotechnology Patent Landscape: An Analysis of Invention Patents Filed with the State Intellectual Property Office. Nanotechnology Law & Business. 6(4), 524−539.
• SIMON, D.F. and CAO, C., 2009. China's emerging technological edge: assessing the role of high-end talent Cambridge University Press.
• CAO, C., SUTTMEIER, R.P. and SIMON, D.F., 2009. Success in state directed innovation? Perspectives on China’s medium and long-term plan for the development of science and technology. In: PARAYIL, G. and D’COSTA, A.P., eds., The new Asian innovation dynamics: China and India in perspective Palgrave Macmillan.
• CONG CAO, 2008. China’s Brain Drain and Brain Gain: Why Government Policies Have Failed to Attract First-Rate Talent to Return? Asian Population Studies. 4(3), 331−345.
• DENIS FRED SIMON AND CONG CAO, 2008. China’s Emerging Science and Technology Talent Pool: A Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment. In: HENRY S. ROWEN, MARGUERITE GONG HANCOCK, AND WILLIAM F. MILLER, ed., Great China’s Quest for Innovation. Walter H. Shorenstein Asia−Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, distributed by Brookings Institution Press. 181−196.
• CONG CAO, 2008. Toward a Better Understanding of China’s Scientific Elite. In: HENRY S. ROWEN, MARGUERITE GONG HANCOCK and WILLIAM F. MILLER, eds., Great China’s Quest for Innovation. Walter H. Shorenstein Asia−Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, distributed by Brookings Institution Press. 217−230.
• CONG CAO, 2008. Technological Development Challenges in Chinese Industry. In: ELSPETH THOMSON AND JON SIGURDSON, ed., China’s Science and Technology Sector and the Forces of Globalization. World Scientific. 1−30.
• DENIS FRED SIMON AND CONG CAO, 2008. China’s Emerging Science and Technology Talent Pool: A Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment. In: ROBERT L. DEHAAN AND K. M. VENKAT NARAYAN, ed., Education for Innovation: Implications for India, China and America. Sense Publishers. 83−110.
• BIHUI JIN, RONALD ROUSSEAU, RICHARD P. SUTTMEIER, AND CONG CAO, 2007. The Role of Ethnic Ties in International Collaboration: The Overseas Chinese Phenomenon. In: Proceedings of the ISSI 2007 (11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics). 427−436.
• RICHARD P. SUTTMEIER, CONG CAO, AND DENIS FRED SIMON, 2006. "Knowledge Innovation" and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Science. 312, 58−59.
• CONG CAO, RICHARD P. SUTTMEIER, AND DENIS FRED SIMON, 2006. China’s 15−Year Science and Technology Plan. Physics Today. 59(12), 38−43.
• RICHARD P. SUTTMEIER, CONG CAO, AND DENIS FRED SIMON, 2006. China’s Innovation Challenge and the Remaking of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization. 1(3), 78−97.
• CONG CAO, 2004. China's Scientific Elite. 1st. Routledge.
• CONG CAO, 2004. Chinese Science and the "Nobel Prize Complex". Minerva. 42(2), 151−172.
• CONG CAO, 2004. SARS: "Waterloo" of Chinese Science. China: An International Journal. 2, 262−286.
• CONG CAO, 2004. Challenges for Technological Development in China’s Industry. China Perspectives. 54, 4−16.
• CONG CAO, 2004. Zhongguancun and China’s High-Tech Parks in Transition: "Growing Pains" or "Premature Senility"? Asian Survey. 44(5), 647−688.
• CONG CAO, 2004. Chinese Scientists Were Defeated by SARS. In: JOHN WONG AND YONGNIAN ZHENG, ed., The SARS Epidemic: Challenges to China’s Crisis Management. World Scientific. 157−180.
• RICHARD P. SUTTMEIER AND CONG CAO, 2004. China’s Technical Community: Market Reform and the Changing Policy Cultures of Science. In: EDWARD GU AND MERLE GOLDMAN, ed., Chinese Intellectuals between Market and State. Routledge. 138−157.
• CONG CAO, 2002. Strengthening China through Science and Education: China’s New Development Strategy toward the Twenty-First Century. Issues & Studies. 38(3), 122−149.
• CONG CAO AND RICHARD P. SUTTMEIER, 2001. China’s New Scientific Elite: Professional Orientations among Distinguished Young Scientists The China Quarterly. 168, 959−983.
• CONG CAO, 1999. The Changing Dynamic between Science and Politics: Evolution of the Highest Academic Honor in China, 1949−1998. Isis. 90(2), 298−324.
• CONG CAO AND RICHARD P. SUTTMEIER, 1999. China’s "Brain Bank": Leadership and Elitism in Chinese Science and Engineering Asian Survey. 39(3), 525−559.
• CONG CAO, 1999. Red or Expert? Membership in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Problems of Post-Communism. 48(4), 42−55.
• RICHARD P. SUTTMEIER AND CONG CAO, 1999. China Faces the New Industrial Revolution: Assessing Research and Innovation Strategies for the 21st Century. Asian Perspective. 23, 153−200.
• CONG CAO, 1999. Social Origins of the Chinese Scientific Elite. The China Quarterly. 160, 992−1018.
• CONG CAO, 1998. The Chinese Academy of Sciences: Elections of Scientists into the Elite Group. Minerva. 36(4), 323−346.
• CONG CAO, 1998. Modernizing Science through Educating the Elite. In: MICHAEL AGELASTO AND BOB ADAMSON, ed., Higher Education in Post-Mao China. Hong Kong University Press. 99−119.
• CONG CAO, 1994. The Newspaper Coverage of Cold Fusion: A Comparison between The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. In: 1994 Conference, Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. 350−359.