scholarly journals Universities’ Scientific and Technological Transformation in China: Its Efficiency and Influencing Factors in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0261343
Author(s):  
Lin Zou ◽  
Yi-Wen Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Yangtze River ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
The Yangtze River ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Technological Transformation ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
Heterogeneous Region

Universities are important sources of knowledge and key members of the regional innovation system. The key problem in Chinese universities is the low efficiency of the scientific and technological (S&T) transformation, which limits the promotion of regional innovation and economic development. This article proposes the three-stage efficiency analytical framework, which regards it as a complex and interactive process. Avoiding the problem of considering the input and output of university S&T transformation as a “black box” and neglecting the links among different transformation stages. The super efficiency network SBM model is applied to the heterogeneous region of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Empirical research proves that university S&T transformation has not been effectively improved and the scientific resources invested in universities have not been efficiently utilized in recent years. Generally, Despite the correlation between regional economy and transformation efficiency, the exclusive increase in resources is not enough. Regional openness and the quality of research talents are key factors for the application of technological innovation and technology marketization. Universities should not only pursue the number of research outputs but pay more attention to high-quality knowledge production to overcome difficulties in research achievements transformation.

scholarly journals Market Integration and Regional Innovation in China: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Xiaohong Liu ◽  
Ching-Ter Chang
Keyword(s):  
Yangtze River ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Yangtze River Delta ◽  
The Yangtze River ◽  
Delta Region ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Yangtze River Delta Region ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Yangtze River Delta

Market integration is an important tool for China’s regionally coordinated economic development. At the same time, China is implementing an innovation-driven development strategy. Therefore, the way the market integration affects regional innovation is of great significance to analyze this problem. The panel data of 27 cities in the Yangtze River Delta region in China with the highest degree of economic integration from 2009 to 2018 are used to investigate the impact of market integration (MI) on regional innovation (RI). The main findings are as follows: the first-order lag term of RI is significantly positive, and RI has certain path dependence. In this regard, MI has a positive impact on RI and promotes RI. The estimated coefficient of MI is significantly positive and has a positive impact on RI and promotes RI. This provides a reference for promoting RI through MI. The contributions of the paper are threefold: (1) This paper examines the impact of MI on RI to provide policy implications for the coordinated development of innovation between regions. (2) The relative price method is adopted to measure the MI, which covers 16 kinds of commodities, covering a wider range than does the traditional method. (3) This paper uses the generalized method of moments (GMM) to test the effect of MI on RI for the first time.

scholarly journals Research on Innovation Performance in Heterogeneous Region: Evidence from Yangtze Economic Belt in China

Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Lin Zou ◽  
Yi-wen Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Yangtze River ◽  
Malmquist Index ◽  
Theoretical Aspect ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Utilization Rate ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Heterogeneous Region ◽  
Innovative Resources ◽  
Input Redundancy ◽  
Different Characteristics

Innovation has become the main impetus for regional development. Effective utilization of innovation resources is crucial in promoting sustainable innovation. From the theoretical aspect, there still exists uncertainty of how to effectively evaluate innovation performance. From the empirical aspect, we still doubt whether regions of higher economic level or high innovation quantity really show positive regional innovation performance, especially in heterogeneous regions. This paper uses DEA-Malmquist index to measure regional innovation performance of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China. Regions of similar performance levels are grouped by ward clustering, analysis regional innovation performance characteristics, and problem-solving paths of regions in different development stages. The empirical research proves that overall performance of Yangtze River Economic Belt is not high. The economic core area has realized increase of innovation volume through large amount of material input and resource consumption, instead of realizing full utilization of innovative resources; how to improve the utilization rate of existing technical resources has been neglected. Different regions with similar innovation performance show different characteristics and innovation problems, including resource mismatch, input redundancy, or insufficient output. There are also some differences in the way the region’s specific innovation performance is improved.

scholarly journals Coordinated Development of Innovation System in China’s Yangtze River Economic Belt, a Demand and Supply Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Yang Zhang ◽  
Dezhong Duan ◽  
Debin Du
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Regional Innovation System ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Coordinated Development ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Regional Coordination ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Coordination Development

The Development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) is not only a major regional coordination development strategy in China but also a core carrier supporting China’s innovation-driven development. Under this background, this paper explored the evolution, spatial difference, and coordination development of the regional innovation system in the period of 2007 to 2017 from the demand and supply perspective. We found that, during the study period, the development level of the innovation demand subsystem (IDS) and innovation supply subsystem (ISS), as well as their coordinated development, all showed an increasing trend. The development gap of IDS and the coordinated development among cities in YREB was quite balanced, while there existed a large gap among cities in YREB in the development of ISS. The development of IDS was better than the development of ISS in most of the cities of YREB, indicating that the innovation development of cities in YREB needs supply-side structural reform urgently. Most cities in YREB were at the moderately or slightly uncoordinated development phase, and Shanghai was the only city with coordinated development between IDS and ISS. This paper enriches the regional innovation system from a new perspective, the demand and supply perspective, as well as providing suggestions for the coordinated development of the regional innovation system in YREB.

The Role of University as Institutional Entrepreneur in Regional Innovation System

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuzhuo Cai ◽  
Cui Liu
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Regional Innovation System ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneur ◽  
The University ◽  
Tongji University

Recent literature has moved from a primarily economic perspective to awareness of the institutional role of a university in a regional innovation system. This chapter contributes to the scholarly discussions by combining the theories of institutional entrepreneurship and institutional logics to provide an analytical framework for understanding how universities can support institutional change in a regional innovation system. In particular, the authors consider the university as an institutional entrepreneur that not only initiates diverse changes in the institutional environment, but also actively participates in the implementation of such changes. The analytical framework is used to analyse the case of Tongji University in a regional innovation system in Shanghai, China.

Regional Innovation System in Lower Silesia

2013 ◽  
pp. 134-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslaw Miller
Keyword(s):  
Regional Scale ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Triangle ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Lower Silesia

Knowledge Based Economy is the key to realize the Lisbon strategy for Europe on global and regional scale. Wroclaw’s EIT Plus strategy will stimulate knowledge-intensive growth of Wroclaw and the Lower Silesia region by concerted effort of the knowledge triangle stakeholders. The cooperation with the neighbouring regions will contribute to establishing a significant knowledge-based economy region in this part of Central Europe and, consequently, should also lead to strengthening the economic position of Poland. EIT Plus Programme refers to the goals of the visionary EC initiative to establish the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. Initial financing for the EIT Plus Programme of ca 200 Mio. € comes from the EU structural funds for 2008-2014. Several core projects for implementation of the EIT Plus programme have been prepared by a new entity, Wroclaw Research Centre EIT Plus Ltd being a company established in 2008 by the City of Wroclaw, the Lower Silesia Region and Wroclaw universities.

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