From the Chinese economic point of view, 2018 was celebrated as the 40th anniversary of reform and opening-up in China. To mark the significant milestone, Jilin University and Amsterdam Business School joined together to hold the 5th Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Conference in Amsterdam on the theme of "Technology Entrepreneurship - The Driving Force of Contemporary Business" on 18 October 2018. To disseminate quality research, Chinese Management Studies agreed to publish a ebook on "Innovation with Chinese Characteristics: Theory and Practice". The nine papers we presented in this ebook to the readers were selected from 49 submissions and were those that had gone through the journal's blind peer-review process. In this section, we provide a preview of the ebook. The articles in this CMS Special Section on Innovation with Chinese Characteristics highlight some specific aspects that manifest innovation in China. They address issues ranging from innovation subsidy, fiscal decentralisation, management behaviour to business model.