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Considering R&D collaboration in China? Look before you leap, say innovation consultants Taco C.R. van Someren and Shuhua van Someren-Wang. Mistakes can cost millions.

This Battelle-R&D Magazine report on international research and development trends sees China's race into R&D as the modern day equivalent of the Cold War.

China has now set its sights on developing its scientific prowess in the same way - and at the same rate – as it has modernised its economy.

When Google hired Kai-fu Lee from Microsoft to set up the internet company's new R&D centre in Beijing in July, it set off a legal battle that highlights how much is at stake in the rush to cash in on the country's booming economy and vast scientific labour force.