From https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/forget-deepseek-china-real-sputnik-060000403.html
Title : Forget DeepSeek. China’s real ‘Sputnik moment’ is happening on campus as American universities lose their advantage
By Mia Osmonbekov , August 2026
... Harvard Business School's Josh Lerner and his co-authors dug into who is actually filing the patents behind the 14 technology areas the Pentagon deems critical—advanced computing, space technology, AI, hypersonics and biotech. The answer: Chinese universities account for more than 25% of the country's inventions in those fields, 8x the U.S. rate at 3.3% ...
The share of Chinese critical-technology patents containing "disruptive" technical language jumped from under 2% in the early 1990s to 16% by 2022, closing in on the American share of roughly 20% ...
In June, Harvard lost the top spot in the Nature Index Research Leaders—a closely watched measure of high-quality research output—for the first time since the index began tracking universities in 2015. Among academic institutions, Zhejiang University ... moved into first place, with Harvard falling to second. Including the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a government research body rather than a university, Harvard falls to third place. Nine of the top 10 academic institutions globally are now Chinese; 5 years ago, 8 of the top 10 were American ...
China surpassed the U.S. in total R&D spending for the first time in 2024, investing $1.03 trillion to America's $1.01 trillion, and has reached via R&D growth topping 14% annually since 2004, more than double the U.S. pace.
Title : Forget DeepSeek. China’s real ‘Sputnik moment’ is happening on campus as American universities lose their advantage
By Mia Osmonbekov , August 2026
... Harvard Business School's Josh Lerner and his co-authors dug into who is actually filing the patents behind the 14 technology areas the Pentagon deems critical—advanced computing, space technology, AI, hypersonics and biotech. The answer: Chinese universities account for more than 25% of the country's inventions in those fields, 8x the U.S. rate at 3.3% ...
The share of Chinese critical-technology patents containing "disruptive" technical language jumped from under 2% in the early 1990s to 16% by 2022, closing in on the American share of roughly 20% ...
In June, Harvard lost the top spot in the Nature Index Research Leaders—a closely watched measure of high-quality research output—for the first time since the index began tracking universities in 2015. Among academic institutions, Zhejiang University ... moved into first place, with Harvard falling to second. Including the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a government research body rather than a university, Harvard falls to third place. Nine of the top 10 academic institutions globally are now Chinese; 5 years ago, 8 of the top 10 were American ...
China surpassed the U.S. in total R&D spending for the first time in 2024, investing $1.03 trillion to America's $1.01 trillion, and has reached via R&D growth topping 14% annually since 2004, more than double the U.S. pace.
