Planificación a la manera china

Businessweek publica un artículo bastante aburrido sobre el camino de la innovación en las RDEs o rapidly developing economies (¿cuál será la traducción al castellano?). De todos modos, un párrafo me llamó la atención:

China unveiled what it called its 15-year "Medium-to-Long-Term Plan for the Development of Science and Technology."

The plan calls on China to become an "innovation-oriented society" by the year 2020, and a global leader in science and technology by mid-century. The plan calls for steep increases in research and development (R&D) expenditures over the next 15 years, from 1.23% of gross domestic product in 2004 to 2.5% of a significantly larger GDP by 2020. And it sets two far-reaching goals: First, for China to become one of the top five countries in the world in the number of new patents granted for inventions, and second, as noted by the American Institute of Physics, "For Chinese-authored scientific papers to become among the world's most cited.

Hace ya demasiados años recuerdo haberme sorprendido por los grandes carteles de neón, que alumbraban las calles de Kuala Lumpur: "Malaysia 2020". En general, y probablemente por cuestiones idiosincráticas, los países de Asia manejan muy bien la generación de "visiones de desarrollo" hacia el futuro; marketing interno y externo para proyectarse en el mundo.