Abstract: As a new computer application technology, persuasive technology is widely used in many fields. In the current study, persuasive technology is regarded as the concrete manifestation of the phenomenon of technology mediation in the mediation theory of philosophy of technology, thus the reason why the persuasion result is uncertain can be explained. In the ethical field，in order to deal with the question that persuasive technology may lead to manipulation and paternalism, the framework of inner moral evaluation in the design of persuasive technology is constructed and revised，and the respect for the individual voluntariness is regarded as the starting point of persuasion ethics. In addition, the characteristics of persuasion rationality, the trust in persuasion technology and whether persuasion technology restricts human freedom are discussed.
How team mindset affect team scientific creativity is not only an emerging topic in the field of scientific creativity under the background of innovation-driven development strategy, but also an important issue faced by innovation education in colleges and universities under the background of emerging engineering construction. Referring to the theories of creativity component and social cognition, we take the science and technology innovation team of science and engineering college students as research samples and construct a moderated chain mediation effect model. The experimental study shows that team mindset has a significant positive effect on team scientific creativity. The questionnaire survey shows that team creative efficacy and team cognitive flexibility not only play a role of single mediation but also chain mediation in the relationship between team mindset and team scientific creativity; open communication moderates the relationships between team mindset and team creative efficacy, team cognitive flexibility and team scientific creativity. These findings have important theoretical implications and practical significance for team scientific and technological innovation.
Based on the coupling model of industry-university-research coupling degree, principal component analysis and panel threshold regression model, using the panel data of various provinces and cities in China in 2012-2016 to study the input of scientific and technological human resources to regional innovation performance impact when the coupling of production, education and research as the threshold variable.The empirical results show that when the coupling degree of production, study and research is used as the threshold variable, the input of scientific and technological human resources in enterprises and universities and research institutes will have obvious double threshold effect between the three periods of regional innovation performance; when the coupling degree is higher than 0.7324, investing in scientific and technological human resources in enterprises will have a significant positive impact on regional innovation performance. When the degree is lower than 0.7324,it will have a relatively weak positive impact . When the degree of coupling is higher than 0.6120, investing in scientific and technological human resources in research institutes and universities will have a significant positive impact on regional innovation performance. When the degree is lower than 0.6120, it will have a relatively weak positive impact ; and when the degree is higher than 0.6120, the investment in scientific and technological human resources in universities and research institutes will have a greater impact on regional innovation performance than in the enterprise.
The influence of talents on high-quality economic development depends not only on the talent elements themselves, but also on the matching conditions with other factors, such as technical, economy, regime and so on. Based on the logic, we thought of the technical efficiency as high-quality economic development, and classified talents according to some character, to probe the influence of talent’s factor resource matching on high-quality economic development by utilizing trans-log production function and panel data of 30 provinces and cities in China (excluding Tibet, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) from 2002 to 2016. We find that, (1)the distortion of talent’s factor resource matching does exist and can explain the loss of technicall efficiency; (2)R&D talents could significantly promote economic growth, whereas educated talents can’t. (3)The matching efficiency of educated talents and R&D talents in the east, central and west regions is quite different, which is manifested in effects such as regional matching, structural complementation, industrial matching and sectoral matching on technical efficiency and economic high-quality development in different regions. Therefore, while introducing and cultivating talents, it is more necessary to create a good market, industry and institutional environment to make talents with other production or innovation factors well matched. In addition, it is also necessary to take the coordination of the allocation of talents between regions into account.
Based on the global value chain theory and endogenous growth theory，using the Chinese Statistical Yearbook and the UIBE database issued by the Institute of global value chains of University of International Business and Economics concerning the global value on the forward and backward correlation, we reexamine the mechanism of the effect of Global Value Chain Embeddedness on the technical progress of service industry. The empirical research finds that although China's service industry and its sub-sectors have certain industry-scale effects, technical progress has a limited promotion effect, and technical progress and technical efficiency of service industry still need to be further improved; the length, participation and position indicators of global value chain based on forward and backward linkages have a positive U-shaped nonlinear relationship with China's service industry technical progress, and are located on the left side of the curve now, that is, the global value chain embeddedness has a certain role in promoting the technological progress of China's service industry, it is approaching but has not yet crossed the “inflection point” from inhibition to promotion, and the global value chain embeddedness still has a large room for improvement in the technical progress of the service industry, which is also consistent with the economic reality that the development of China's service industry still has a large development space .
The structure of human capital has an important influence on the industrial structure optimization, and also shows the spatial correlation between regions. Firstly, under the goal of improving efficiency, the paper measures industrial structure optimization. Secondly, Based on the data of 30 provinces in China from 2005 to 2017, this paper constructs spatial panel data models which include entire country, east area, central area and west area of China, and analyzes that human capital at different educational levels influences the industrial structure optimization. Basing on the goal of improving efficiency, the results show that the labor force of primary education has a negative effect on the industrial structure optimization, the labor force of secondary education and high education play a positive role in promoting the industrial structure optimization in China. In the eastern, central and western area of China, there are differences in the labor force at different education levels influencing the industrial structure optimization. Finally, suggestions were put forward according to the empirical results.
Based on the perspective of innovation ecosystem, the concepts of complementary leadership and component leadership were put forward, and their effects on innovation performance and economic performance of enterprises were explored. The data of 589 new three-board listed companies in Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces were used to verify the hypotheses. The results show that enhancing complementary leadership and component leadership can effectively promote enterprise’s innovation performance and economic performance, among which complementary leadership plays a relatively important role. At the same time, it is found that R&D investment positively regulates the relationship between component leadership and enterprise’s innovation performance, and government policy support has no significant moderating effect on the relationship between complementary leadership and enterprise economic performance.
entrepreneurial persistence is a complex decision, what factors make an entrepreneur stick to build up a firm when others choose to give up? According to the social cognition theory, the behavior of entrepreneurs is affected by both social environment factors and individual factors. This paper collects data through a questionnaire survey to examine the relationship between social support, self-efficacy, entrepreneurial passion and persistence. The results show that social support has a significant positive effect on entrepreneurial persistence. Social self-efficacy plays an intermediary role between social support and entrepreneurial persistence. Entrepreneurial passion plays an intermediary role between social support and entrepreneurial persistence. It is worth noting that entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial passion play a chain intermediary role between social support and entrepreneurial persistence.
Ambidexterity plays an important role in catching up for latecomer firms. However, it is still unclear how the latecomer firms can accomplish the process of catch-up through sequential ambidexterity. The longitudinal case study of CIXING from 1988 to 2018 found that latecomer firms can carry out different organizational learning according to the nature of technological change in the process of technological catch-up. The radical change period of technological paradigm shift is guided by exploratory learning and the independent institutes are responsible for that change. The convergence period of the technical paradigm tends to be stable, which dominated by exploitation and can be completed in mainstream institutions. At the same time, as the technological difficulty of catch-up increases, the R&D team of the firm is upgraded from lightweight to heavyweight. The dynamic matching between the nature of technological change, the type of organizational learning and the internal factors of the organization enables the latecomer firms to oscillate between exploration and exploitation rhythmically, forming sequential ambidexterity, and thus achieved technological catch-up with leading international companies. The conclusions of this paper contributed to the research of technological catch-up and ambidextrous learning.
On the background of platform economy’s rising, internet platform empowers the enterprises operating on them through the pivot status in the ecological system, the identical information digital technology and powerful integration capability, which has caused extensive concern. From the integration perspective of empowerment theory and value co-creation theory, this paper studies the impact of cross-border e-commerce platform empowerment on enterprises performance and the mediating effect of value co-creation. Based on 690 cross-border exporting e-commerce questionnaires, the results show that cross-border e-commerce platform empowerment significantly improves the performance of exporting e-commerce enterprises, and three sub-dimensions of the value co-creation (joint planning, joint problem solving, and flexibility to make adjustments) play partial mediation roles respectively to the positive relationship between platform empowerment and exporting e-commerce enterprises performance. The study reveals the impacting mechanism of platform empowerment to enterprises performance, and it also provides suggestions for enterprises to carry out value co-creation effectively with platforms and make full use of platform empowerment as drivers of innovative development.
As knowledge producers and innovators, colleges should serve the strategy of Rural Revitalization which is a glorious mission given by the times. However, due to the constraints of knowledge attributes, absorptive capacity, acceptance willingness, institutional environment and so on, the knowledge spillover of rural rejuvenation in colleges has some problems, such as the mismatch of knowledge demand, the process and the way of spillover are not smooth. Through in-depth interviews and questionnaires, this paper investigated the status quo of knowledge spillover performance and its influencing factors in rural rejuvenation of college services. Structural equation modeling method is used to verify the hypothesis from three aspects of knowledge source, recipient and related scenarios, revealing the influencing factors and mechanism of knowledge spillover performance of rural revitalization in colleges. The results showed that:among the factors affecting the performance of knowledge spillover from colleges to rural areas, "innovation ability" and "spillover willingness" of knowledge source have significant positive influences on both "tangible performance" and "potential performance”. The "task oriented trust" and "policy environment” of associated scenarios have positive influences on both "tangible performance" and "potential performance”, while the "knowledge distance" and "cultural distance" have negative influences on both performances. Meanwhile, The "absorption capability", "cooperation expectation", "cooperation experience” and "acceptance willingness" of receivers have positive influences on improving spillover performances. This study provides policy recommendations for promoting the strategies of colleges serving rural revitalization.
Some previous studies suggested that a position which can make a firm get more external resources in social network means the firm has advantages for improving its R&D performance. However, the results of some empirical studies did not support this opinion. In this study, we analyse this contradiction between theory and actual. We put forward a new perspective to understand the relationship between social network position and R&D performance. Specifically, we argue that the technology accumulation has a threshold effect in the relationship. We constructed a bipartite social network of Chinese listed firms. The network position of focal firms is measured by structural holes, degree centrality, betweenness centrality, and closeness centrality. Moreover, we calculate the firms’ R&D performance by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method. The results of the panel threshold regression model show that the technology accumulation’s threshold effect is significant. We also find different types of network positions have different influences on a firm’s R&D performance. Previous studies have shown that network position’s influence on R&D performance is non-linear. However, we find that previous studies about the nonlinear relationship of network position and R&D performance always focus on external impact and the firm’s adaptive capacity to the environment, but few studies are related to the firm’s internal technology accumulation’s influence on firm’s demand for external resources. Finally, we discussed the study results combined with previous studies.
This paper critically reviews the classical innovation paradigm focusing on social needs, proposes the Meaningful innovation (MI) paradigm, emphasizes that enterprises should actively pay attention to the meaning of innovation, take it as the prerequisite variable of the innovation process, and establishes the theoretical framework of innovation meaning management and innovation elements combination. The paper traces back the origin of theory, delimits the boundary of theory, constructs the theoretical foundation, discriminates and analyzes the related concepts, and expounds the connotative structure. This paper reviews the emergence, development and iteration of the mainstream innovation theory paradigm in the field of management innovation in China since the reform and opening up, and provides enlightenment for the establishment and future development of meaningful innovation.
Because of complexity and uncertainty of innovation activities, lots of discontinuous innovation could not be completed in isolation. As a result, enterprises need to obtain complementary resources from outside to ensure the innovation of new products or technologies. In the process of looking for and acquiring complementary resources, various innovation entities are gradually connected and the process of building an innovative ecosystem is initiated. The process of linking various types of complementary resource providers is also the process of building an innovation ecosystem as well as the process of gaining legitimacy with the external environment. Then, in the context of discontinuous innovation, how should companies build an innovation ecosystem. Through the case study on EZ Station innovation ecosystem, it is found that: 1) Excessive innovation discontinuity may have a negative impact on the construction of innovation ecosystem, 2) Within the innovation ecosystem, innovation discontinuity mainly affects the system construction process through matching effect, that is, enterprises need to search for and connect with complement firms which is highly matched within the innovation activities; 3) Outside the innovation ecosystem, innovation discontinuity mainly affects the construction process of the system through legitimacy, that is, the innovation ecosystem needs to continuously interact with the external environment to obtain related legitimacy.
Innovation leap mean the variability of firm's innovation behavior along the temporal dimension, representing the recognition of technological trajectories, exploration of technological opportunities in the future, and getting rid of the routine of technological development. On account of not enough attention paid to the antecedents of innovation leap in existing literature, this paper investigates the knowledge-base antecedents of innovation leap from the perspective of ambidextrous transition and technological knowledge system. Using the panel data of 489 enterprises in strategic emerging industries in China, this paper find: (1) the diversification of technological knowledge system has positive effects on innovation leap, and related diversification has greater effect than unrelated diversification;（2）the uniqueness of technological knowledge system and innovation leap shows inverted U-shaped relationship. This paper extending the studies of the antecedents of innovation leap and provides some implications for firms to construct suitable technological knowledge to explore the technological opportunities in the future.
The commercialization of technology from universities and public research institutions is gaining more attention. In order to transform their basic scientific research more effectively, science-based firms are born, which are closely linked to basic scientific research and seek to obtain financial returns from technical transformation. This paper selects the successful case from university in China, and studies the commercialization of the achievements from the perspective of science-based firms. The research of this paper shows: (1) For the basic scientific research, the establishment of "science-based firms" is an effective way to achieve the commercialization of technical; (2) the deep participation of scientists in commercialization is an effective way to achieve tacit knowledge transfer; (3) the establishment of long-term cooperation and feedback mechanism between science-based firms and universities or research institutions is conducive to cultivate the ability of knowledge absorption and form the continuous innovation ability of the firms; (4) The multiple support from governments could reduce the risk and provide a good environment for innovation.
