Imitation and innovation in the function of increasing competitiveness on the example of China : Graduate paper

Poduzeća danas funkcioniraju na dva načina putem inovacije i imitacije. Inovacija je ključna u stvaranju konkurentnosti i velike ekonomske moći. Oni menadžeri koji teže velikom uspjehu i koji su kreativni i žele nešto novo oni će inovirati, a oni menadžeri koji žele brzi i siguran profit uz minimalne troškove će imitirati. Kina je zemlja koja je najpoznatija po imitaciji i velikom izvozu, ali budućnost se može predvidjeti i ona kaže da Kina postaje vodeći inovator. Pomoću četiri velika izuma su promijenili svijet i način na koji život funkcionira, ne postoji čovjek koji nije čuo za kompas, barut, papir i tiskane knjige. Velika ulaganja u istraživanja i razvoj su dovele do toga da tehnologija i znanost drastično napreduju te su im se povećali i broj inovacija. Dobar primjer je grad Shenzhen u koji je Kina toliko uložila domaćeg i stranog kapitala da je u zadnjih četrdeset godina narastao pedeset puta i trenutno slovi za najbogatiji grad u Kini te kao najveći industrijski centar svijeta u elektronici i komunikaciji. Usporedbom Kine sa Zapadom može se uočiti koliko je Kina ispred i na koji način su to postigli. Dok Zapad inovira pomoću procesa koji je jako spor, Kina to radi vrlo brzo te otvaraju nova tržišta. Kina je inovativna iako to Zapad neće priznati.Businesses today operate in two ways through innovation and imitation. Innovation is key to creating competitiveness and great economic power. Those managers who want to have great success and who create and want something new, they will innovate, and those managers who want a rapid and secure profit at minimal cost, they will imitate. China is a country best known for imitation and large exports, but the future can be predicted and says China is becoming a leading innovator. With the help of Four great inventions they changed the world and the way life works, there is no man who has not heard of compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing. Large investments in research and development have led to the drastic progress of technology and science, and the number of innovations has increased. A good example is the city of Shenzhen where China has invested so much domestic and foreign capital that it has grown fifty times in the last forty years and is currently the letters as China’s richest city and as the world’s largest industrial hub in electronics and communications. Comparing China with the West, it can be seen how much China is actually ahead and how they have achieved it. While the West is innovating through a process that is very slow, China is working very rapidly and they open up a new markets. China is innovative although the West will not admit it