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  • A Theoretical Framework of Internet Enabled Country/Region "Discovery-Innovation" System
  • 2014 Vol. 32 (2): 170-177.
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  • Technology innovation, knowledge innovation, building state/region innovation system and enhancing core competitiveness were paid much attention in many countries/regions with the development of the knowledge-based economy. This paper extend and deepen the "national/regional innovation system" to be "internet enabled country/region discovery-innovation system", considering three viewpoints, "knowledge discovery support for innovation systems", "opening knowledge sources and computational thinking support for knowledge discovery " and "technology innovation demands for knowledge discovery", basing on three theory ideas—"technological sciences thought", "New pasteur's quadrant" and "cooperation innovation", and the e-science and CDI practice in England and America respectively.
  • Research on Construction and Application of Innovation Mapping Based on Morphology Analysis
  • 2014 Vol. 32 (2): 178-183.
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  • Faced with the increasingly global competition environment, enterprises must gain some insight into the development tendency and competition situation in the field of technology and quickly identify and grasp the opportunity of technological innovation, so that they can survive and develop in the competition environment. This paper presents the innovative approach based on morphology analysis, describes the process of technical opportunities identification and constructs the innovation mapping on wine power technology based on the China patent data. The method helps to increase the objectivity of the analysis process and the validity of expert decision-making, and would help provide decision support and information security for enterprise technology innovation research and government technology innovation management.
  • Which Type of R&D investment can Increase the Total Factor Productivity of a Country?----Empirical evidence from OECD countries
  • 2014 Vol. 32 (2): 203-210.
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  • R&D Investment is one of the important ways to increase the total factor productivity, and different types of R&D activities have different influences on productivity of one country. A theoretical model is built to reflect the relationship between basic research, applied research, experimental development and the productivity, and a panel data of 23 OECD countries from 1996 to 2010 is used to test the different influences of different types of R&D investment. From the influence period, experimental development activities has a significant positive effect on total factor productivity in the current period, while the applied research and the basic research both have a lagged effect and the lagged time of basic research is longer. From the influence effect, the effect of basic research is stronger than that of the applied research and the effect of experimental development is the weakest but increasing rapidly. Therefore, relying on investment on applied research and experimental development is not an effective way to increase the total factor productivity of one country. The investment and accumulation on basic research should be paid attention to, so as to keep its core status and long-time effects in increasing total factor productivity.
  • Urbanization,Non-agricultural and Agriculture Technology Change——A Study Based on SVAR Model
  • 2014 Vol. 32 (2): 211-217.
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  • Raised the level of agricultural technology is the key to achieve the modernization of agriculture and the coordinated development of urban and rural areas. Agricultural technology comes mainly from two aspects, one is the production of new agricultural technology in city, and another is technology transferred to agriculture from non-agricultural sector. This article discusses the relationship and response in the urbanization, non-agricultural technology and agricultural technology changes through the SVAR model.It thinks that not only agricultural technology has lasting power to urbanization, but also has long-term effects on the non-agricultural technology. The short term effects on agricultural technology from China's urbanization is not obvious, but non-agricultural technology’s short-term effects on agricultural technology are obvious. Then, we should play urbanization an important role in increasing agricultural technology, advocate adaptive agricultural technology innovation, and improve the agricultural extension system, accelerating technology transfer from a non-farm sector to the agricultural.This is a way to realize of urban and rural development, improve the quality of urbanization.
  • Regional inequality in CO2 emissions and its relationship with income inequality--based on the analysis of China’s provincial data
  • 2014 Vol. 32 (2): 218-225.
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  • Abstract:Using the classical methods of inequality measurement, this paper calculated the inequality in regional income and CO2 emissions from 1990 to 2011. During this period, China’s regional distribution of CO2 emissions is more inequal than that of income, but the degree of these two inequalities are gradually reducing. Through the quasi-Gini coefficient, the relationship between income and CO2 emissions is set up, from which we found that by the rank of per capita GDP, regional distribution of CO2 emissions per capita is more fair not only than its own distribution,but also than the income distribution.This concludes that hign income is not always correspongding with high emissions—the main reason may be the difference in regional carbon reductin technology,the carbon intensity as well;However,grouped by income,Theil index and its decomposition shows differently: the high income group’s contribution to the GDP and CO2 per capita distribution is the largest,and the second high income group’s contribution to the carbon intensity distribution is the highest,so in order to reduce reginoal carbon distribution inequality, it not only needs to narrow regional economic development gap,but also depends on regional emissions reduction technology exchanges and coorperation.
  • Technology capability, host country experience and international technology licensing:An empirical research on foreign firms’ licensing to Chinese firms
  • 2014 Vol. 32 (2): 226-235.
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  • Based on the resource perspective, this paper builds a framework of how technology capability and host country market experience affect firms’ exclusive strateg in international licensing. 529 patent license contracts with foreign licensors and Chinese licensees, recorded in China Intellectual Property Office from 2002 to 2011, were collected to examine the effect of licensors’ technology capability of on their propensity to adopt exclusive licensing. The moderate effect of host country market experience is also be examined. The results show that: (1) with the licensors’ technology capability increase, the propensity to adopt exclusive licensing in international licensing decrease; (2) with the licensors’ technology depth increase, the propensity to adopt exclusive licensing in international licensing decrease; (3) comparing with poor host country market experience licensors, the negative relationship between technology capability and the propensity to take exclusive licensing is stronger for the licensors with rich host country market experience; (4) comparing with poor host country market experience licensors, the negative relationship between technology breadth and the propensity to take exclusive licensing is stronger for the licensors with rich host country market experience.
  • A Study on Corporate Intellectual Property Strategy Based on Organizational Learning Theory
  • 2014 Vol. 32 (2): 250-256.
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  • In the knowledge-based economy, intellectual property (IP), as a solid form of knowledge, becomes a primary tool for firms to protect innovation, gain profits, maintain competitive positions, and accounts for a significant part of a firm’s value. Under the industrial transformation and upgrading background, Chinese firms has come across various challenges related to IP issues, which requires them to develop and implement appropriate IP strategies (IPS) to accelerate their growth. The extant researches on IPS are insufficient on theoretical construction and empirical validation, and lack of Chines context evidence. Based on the literature review, this research used the organizational learning theory to develop a framework for IPS, and analyzed 35 cases through content analysis method. Three interrelated dimensions of IPS were identified, and the theoretical and practical implications were also discussed.
  • What factors influence the formation of network routines?
  • 2014 Vol. 32 (2): 267-275.
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  • Though network routines are considered to be the core elements to maintain and coordinate the technological innovation network, there are few studies on its formation. This paper focuses on the factors that influenced the formation of network routines. Based on Grounded theory, we find inter-organizational relationship, inter-organizational study, network competence, network position, collaborative experience, and network power are the main factors in the process of network routines formation. On the basis of the related literature, We construct the theoretical hypotheses between these factors and network routines, and does an empirical test with the help of SPSS17.0 by surveying on technological innovation networks in Xi’an High-tech Park. The results show that in addition to collaborative experience, all the factors have significant positive relationships with network routines.
  • Can External R&D Institutions Ties Facilitate Enterprise Innovation?——An empirical study of the mediating role of boundry-spanning search
  • 2014 Vol. 32 (2): 289-296.
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  • Can external R&D institutions ties facilitate enterprise innovation? To answer this question, this paper systematically studies the relationship between external R&D institutional ties, boundry-spanning search and enterprise innovation, combined with social network theory and innovation search theory. Empirical findings based on 270 manufacturing firms from China suggest that external R&D institutional ties can enhance enterprise innovation. Technology knowledge boundry-spanning search and market knowledge boundry-spanning search both play a full mediating role between external R&D institutional ties and enterprise innovation. External R&D institutional ties promote technology knowledge boundry-spanning search and market knowledge boundry-spanning search, and these two kinds of knowledge boundary-spanning search in turn enhance enterprise innovation. The study also indicates that the impact that external R&D institutional ties on technology knowledge boundry-spanning search is larger than that on market knowledge boundry-spanning search.
  • Research on the integration of Group Innovative Method for Engineering project
  • 2014 Vol. 32 (2): 297-304.
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  • There are a large number of innovative methods, so they must be systematically applied under the guidance of the idea of the integrated management. This paper investigates the group innovation manager,innovation experts and innovative team members in engineering projects about the understanding, choosing and application on innovative methods, the characteristics and laws of innovative methods application and decision-making of different innovative subjects were analyzed. The integrated application and integrated management of group innovative methods were studied from the process dimension, organizational dimensions and knowledge dimension,then three-dimensional integrated application framework model of group innovative methods was constructed,the ideas and approaches of group innovative methods integrated application were given, a more clear path guidance.for theory analysis and practical application of innovative methods was provided. In the end, a practical case was analyzed to discuss and testify the rationality of theoretical research achievements.The results of Case study show that: Integrating innovative methods according to diffirent innovation subjects, innovation phases and types of knowledge activities will achieve more systematicness and integration.
  • Research on the effect on enterprise’s selection of innovation balance mode in alliance network: from the perspective of network structure
  • 2014 Vol. 32 (2): 305-313.
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  • Enterprises need to balance the exploration innovation and exploitation innovation to ensure both current and future viability, thus it is urgent to select a proper balance mode of innovation. Based on fitness landscape theory and complex network theory, this paper builds balance modes about ambidexterity and punctuated equilibrium based on the NK model, and examines how the network structure effects the selection of the balance mode. The results show that, (i)when the network structure is conductive to access to external knowledge, the enterprise selecting ambidexterity can improve the innovation performance; when the network structure is not conductive to access to external knowledge, the enterprise selecting punctuated equilibrium will get a high short-term performance, and ambidexterity will lead a high long-term performance; (ii)the innovation complexity or environment dynamics does not influence the selection of the balance mode, but the ambidexterity will have more advantages when the innovation complexity or environment dynamics increases.