Xiaolan Fu is Director of the Technology and Management for Development Centre (TMD), University Lecturer in Development Studies and Fellow of Green Templeton College. She is also project leader or co-leader on several EPSRC and ESRC funded projects, including a ￡500,000 ESRC/DFID-funded project on The Diffusion of Innovation in Low-Income Countries. Her recent books include China’s Role in Global Economic Recovery (Routledge, 2011), The Rise of Technological Power in the South (Palgrave, 2010), and Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development in China (Palgrave, 2004) and she serves on the Editorial Boards of Oxford Development Studies, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies and three other international journals. She has published papers in top journals including Journal of Management Studies, World Development, Research Policy, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Studies, and World Economy.