关键词: 孵化器, 制度场域, 划界工作, 扎根理论, 人民日报, Incubator, Institutional Filed, Boundary Works, Grounded Theory, People’s Daily

Abstract: Definitional ambiguity always surrounds the concept of incubators, which is considered to be one of the core concepts in science and technology policy system. Follow the “boundary works” tradition which proposed by Jane Calvert in her book “Goodbye blue skies? The concept of 'basic research' and its role in a changing funding environment”, as well as employ the grounded theory method, this paper argues that the commercialization and industrialization of the S&T achievement is the ultimate mission for incubators’ construction in China, which also plays a continuous role of "institutional myths" in the authoritarianism regime. The structural occasion for the inflexibility of the institutional field lies on the policy discourse generation mechanism featured by “top-down” and “Tiao-Kuai segmentation”, while in turn lead to a selective learning to the oversea expertise, advices from the domestic academy, and the “best practice” in local policy experimentation. To solve the problem of low-quality isomorphism in incubators’ development in China, the discourse circle should really start from “bottom-up” and then “top-down”.