Nature Index 2017 China looks beyond the country’s impressive performance in key metrics and examines how it holds up in other factors that contribute to a functioning research ecosystem, such as collaboration, willingness to make data and research open, science communication and sound science policy.
A substantial proportion of researchers have ambitions of launching a commercial venture. As this Outlook’s stories of 22 spin-offs attest, this Venn-diagram intersection of investigation and entrepreneurship is creating a vigorous sector in the global economy.