10 Jingwei He, Alex, Hongqiao Fu, and Na Tang. “From local innovation to national policy: Cross‐boundary policy entrepreneurship in China’s health regulatory reform.” Australian Journal of Public Administration 85.1 (2026): 51-70. Science,Technology, and Innovation Policy SCHOLARLY SHOWCASE Focus of Study This study explores the cross-boundary policy entrepreneurship model in China’s healthcare sector, analyzing how a local internet hospital pilot in Ningxia scaled up to become a national telemedicine policy. It examines how multi-stakeholder coalitions (local governments, hospitals, and tech rms) broke institutional and sectoral barriers to drive regulatory change, identifying key roles including policy entrepreneurs, process brokers, program champions, and technology innovators. The research traces the two-stage evolution of the reform—local pilot implementation and national policy diffusion—and highlights how actors employed framing, coalition-building, venue-shopping, and persuasion strategies to advance the agenda, with a focus on the tensions between disruptive digital innovation and traditional healthcare governance. Policy Recommendation Policymakers aiming to foster inclusive digital health innovation should adopt a multi-level, collaborative framework: support cross-sector partnerships to design and test local pilots, create formal pathways to scale successful grassroots solutions into national policy, and update regulatory systems to balance innovation with accountability. Additionally, clarifying the roles of public and private actors, strengthening oversight of data security and service quality, and nurturing a culture of adaptive governance can help emerging economies replicate China’s experience while mitigating risks of over-commercialization and regulatory capture. Khanal, Shaleen, and Masaru Yarime. “Exploring geopolitics and innovation: the role of bilateral relationships in shaping research collaboration.” Science and Public Policy (2026): scag024. Focus of Study This paper explores how bilateral geopolitical ties shape global research collaboration and innovation. Using multiple international databases and econometric methods, it veri es three hypotheses. The results show cross-border research collaboration effectively improves patent quality. Better bilateral relations greatly raise the quantity of scienti c cooperation via researcher mobility and high-tech trade. However, national ties only partially in uence patent quality, failing to affect technological originality and radicalness. The study clari es the complex interplay between geopolitics and innovation, lling research gaps in this eld and offering empirical evidence for cross-border scienti c cooperation amid rising global frictions. Policy Recommendation Governments should avoid blanket restrictions on cross-border research and technology exchanges. They need to adopt targeted rules to balance scienti c openness and national security, especially for dual-use technologies. Nations are advised to build stable bilateral and multilateral scienti c partnerships and launch joint research projects on global public issues. Policymakers can use tax incentives and funding support to encourage enterprises and research institutions to conduct international cooperation. It is also vital to strengthen scienti c talent mobility and high-tech trade, to sustain global innovation vitality and build resilient international research networks. CHOLARLY SHOWCASE 9
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