Pascal Coppens
Paperback
ISBN 978-94-6337-184-1 and 979-8-88636-005-9
BOOK 1: CHINA'S NEW NORMAL
The words ‘technology’ and ‘innovation’ are almost automatically linked with American companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Tesla or Amazon in most people’s minds. But this association has created a huge blind spot in the West.
While the world focuses on what is happening in Silicon Valley, the Chinese innovation train has left the station and is moving forward at high speed. Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are the well-known standard-bearers of this fast and furious innovation surge, but they are just the tip of the iceberg.
Pascal Coppens guides the reader through eight key industries. He shows how China is creating a ‘New Normal’ in each of these industries, with vivid stories and examples that often sound like science fiction. The common theme is how China is leveraging its unique strengths to assume a leading position as innovator with the development and implementation of artificial intelligence and other key technologies of the future.
China’s New Normal offers fascinating insights into the new China and its potential impact on the rest of the world. It is essential reading for anyone who is involved with the process of disruption, because in the years ahead China will increasingly be the source of innovations and disruptive trends that will touch all of our lives.
BOOK 2: CAN WE TRUST CHINA?
By 2030, China will be the largest economy in the world. How is it that the country is overtaking the West in lots of areas? Does China have the wealthy West to thank for this? Or is it the result of a decisive collective society? Do the Chinese play by the rules? And what do the Chinese themselves think of the Party and the system?
In the search for answers to these questions, opinions quickly get heated, and people often take a very firm position in either the positive or negative camp. This could end up costing us. If we want to take advantage of the opportunities that China’s transition also offers us and our economy, then a nuanced view is absolutely essential.
Can We Trust China? provides a diverse answer to the many questions about China that make us wary. The book delves into the Chinese psyche to go beyond assumptions and stereotypes and to find out what makes a Chinese person tick, how they fit into society, and how they run their business. It aims to help the reader better understand the China of tomorrow, as well as our own future.
PASCAL COPPENS is a sinologist and technology entrepreneur who lived in China for almost 20 years. Pascal has experienced firsthand the transition of the country and the Chinese people from 1990 until today. He is a partner and speaker at nexxworks and author of China's New Normal (2019), a book about China's leap in innovation.