The Promise of Artistic Research in the Asia Pacific

Artistic research has sought to gain academic legitimacy through adapting to scientific methods, while also retaining the mandate of the humanities in the reproduction of culture. In both cases, Western epistemologies have structured what constitutes knowledge and how it is circulated and shared. The contemporary university is far more connected to its local environment, bringing the potential of engaging broad publics in the life of the institution. Innovation and experimentation with local artistic forms is one way that artistic research can powerfully animate the 21st century university mission in the Asia Pacific.

Why Is Collaborative Agglomeration of Innovation so Important for Improving Regional Innovation Capabilities? A Perspective Based on Collaborative Agglomeration of Industry-University-Research Institution

Exploring the impact of collaborative agglomeration of industry-university-research institution innovation on regional innovation capabilities is of great significance for promoting China's high-quality economic development. This paper introduces the level of innovation collaborative agglomeration into the C-H production density model to theoretically explain the mechanism of the influence of innovation collaborative agglomeration on regional innovation capacity. On this basis, using the 2011–2017 Chinese subprovincial panel data to measure the level of regional innovation collaborative agglomeration and establishing a spatial model, the impact of innovation collaborative agglomeration on regional innovation capacity is empirically examined in two stages: knowledge innovation and outcome transformation. The study finds that the innovation collaborative agglomeration and the regional innovation capacity present a typical inverted U-shape relationship, while the human capital and the regional innovation capacity present an inverted N-shape relationship in the stage of knowledge innovation. There is a U-shaped relationship between the innovation collaborative agglomeration and the regional innovation capacity in the outcome transformation stage, while the impact of human capital on regional innovation capacity is not obvious. This result is still robust after replacing the core explanatory variables and the spatial weight matrix. In terms of three regions, the innovation collaborative agglomeration and the human capital in the middle and eastern regions have a stronger impact on regional innovation capacity than in the western region. The findings of this paper provide policy insights for the innovation collaborative agglomeration of industry, university, and research institution to promote regional innovation capacity.

INOVASI TEKNOLOGI DAN INOVASI KELEMBAGAAN MENDUKUNG KEBERLANJUTAN USAHATANI LADA DI KALIMANTAN TIMUR / Technology and Institution Innovation Supporting the Sustainability of Pepper Farming System in East Kalimantan

<p>Pepper farming in East Kalimantan has faced many obstacles. It is shown by the decline in pepper production in the last five years and the pepper conversion. This condition will affect the sustainability of pepper farming in East Kalimantan, as one of the national white pepper centers. Consequently, it is important to analyze and to establish a technology and institutional innovations. The study aimed to: (1) measure and analyze the sustainability of pepper farming, (2) identify technology innovation, (3) map the opportunities for adoption, and (4) develop institutional innovation and support system. The sustainability analysis of farming was done using weighting and rating methods. Data were collected in Kutai Kertanegara Regency, East Kalimantan in 2016. Results showed that the sustainability level of pepper farming is 3.0062, in the good category, but with a very low value. The environmental aspects provided the greatest value of the contribution to sustainability, followed by economic aspects and social aspects. Technology innovation was needed to overcome the problems. Nevertheless, technology adoption was relatively low. This was influenced by several factors, such as economic factors namely costs and income, social factors namely institutions and facilities support, and technological factors namely suitability and ease of implementation. Therefore, technology innovation needs to be supported by institutional innovation. The types of institutional innovations consist of: (1) establishment of working groups, (2) development of Seed Self-Reliance Region, (3) regulations related to quality standards and monitoring mechanisms, and (4) joint sales, as well as supporting facility to accelerate innovation adoption.</p><p><strong>Keyword:</strong> <span>sustainability index, technology adoption, economic, support facilities</span>.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p>Usahatani lada di Kalimantan Timur masih dihadapkan pada berbagai permasalahan, yang ditunjukkan oleh penurunan kemampuan produksi setelah lima tahun dan adanya konversi usahatani dari lada menjadi komoditas lain. Hal ini akan mempengaruhi keberlanjutan usahatani lada di Kalimantan Timur sebagai salah satu sentra lada putih nasional. Oleh karena itu penting untuk dianalisis dan disusun inovasi teknologi dan kelembagaan untuk mengatasinya. Kajian bertujuan untuk (1) mengukur dan menganalisis keberlanjutan usahatani lada, (2) identifikasi inovasi teknologi, (3) pemetaan peluang adopsi, serta (4) menyusun inovasi kelembagaan dan dukungan bagi peningkatan adopsi inovasi. Analisis keberlanjutan usahatani dilakukan dengan menggunakan metode <em>weighting</em> dan <em>rating</em>. Pengambilan data dilakukan di Kabupaten Kutai Kertanegara Kalimantan Timur pada tahun 2016. Berdasarkan analisis yang dilakukan, diketahui bahwa tingkat keberlanjutan usahatani lada memiliki nilai 3,0062 masuk kategori baik, namun dengan nilai sangat rendah pada kelas tersebut. Aspek lingkungan memberikan nilai kontribusi terbesar terhadap keberlanjutan, diikuti dengan aspek ekonomi dan aspek sosial. Inovasi teknologi diperlukan untuk mengatasi permasalahan sehingga terbangun keberlanjutan usahatani lada. Secara umum, peluang adopsi teknologi masih relatif rendah. Hal ini dipengaruhi oleh beberapa faktor yaitu faktor ekonomi yaitu dari sisi biaya dan pendapatan, faktor sosial yaitu kelembagaan dan dukungan fasilitas, serta faktor teknologi yaitu kesesuaian dan kemudahan dalam menerapkan teknologi. Oleh karena itu inovasi teknologi perlu didukung dengan inovasi kelembagaan. Jenis inovasi kelembagaan bagi peningkatan keberlanjutan usahatani lada yaitu: (1) pembentukan kelompok kerja, (2) pengembangan desa mandiri benih, (3) regulasi terkait standar mutu dan mekanisme pengawasan, serta (4) penjualan bersama, Selain itu juga perlu dukungan fasilitas untuk mempercepat adopsi inovasi.</p><p><strong>Kata kunc</strong>i: <span>indeks keberlanjutan, adopsi teknologi, ekonomi, fasilitas pendukung</span>.</p>

How Does Regional Innovation Capacity Affect the Green Growth Performance? Empirical Evidence from China

Behind the high development of technology, backward institution systems and imperfect incentive mechanisms are not conducive to the green transformation of the economic society in China. Meanwhile, the relative effectiveness of both technical and institution innovation in encouraging green growth has yet to be tested empirically in China. It is of great practical significance to assess the effect of regional innovation capacity (RIC) on the green growth performance. This paper firstly exploits a model to measure regional innovation capacity from the perspective of technological and institutional respect. The panel data of 30 provinces in China during 2008–2017 is then used to examine the coordination effect of technological and institutional instruments on green growth performance. The empirical results demonstrate the following: (i) regional innovation capacity significantly affects the green growth performance of 30 provinces in China, showing regional differences. The elasticity of RIC on the green total factor efficiency in the eastern region is larger at approximately 0.48, followed by central and western areas, at about 0.47 and 0.45, respectively; (ii) technological innovation is able to incentivize green growth performance for all regions in China, while the institutional innovation induces green growth in the eastern region only; (iii) the coordination of technical and institutional instruments has a significant effect on green growth performance, positive in the eastern region and negative in central region respectively.

TQM Practice and Institution Innovation in China

Quality is the language which helping product enters the world market. TQM, instead of traditional management, has been growing into the management mode of modern company. In last 10 years, TQM has made great progress in the whole world, but it did not get significant achievements in China. Although the exports from China always keep the image of “cheap and good” in international market, the qualified ratio of products calculated in domestic market is only around 75% and inferior and fake products are often exposed. Therefore, China needs to learn from the TQM experience and practice of advanced countries both in micro and macro field. The process from traditional management to TQM is based on not only corporate technology system, but also on social and institutional system. Our conclusion from China's case is that the international competitive advantage of individual company came from excellent product quality, the excellent product quality is based on excellent TQM practice, and the excellent TQM practice rooted in whole country's macro institutional system. Now, China is still in the stage of transforming public-owned-dominated planning system to individual-owned-dominated market-oriented system. There are many political and economic and social institutions and their policy, regulation, even ideology need to be innovated. Only by doing this, China's companies could follow the foreign partner's step, set up their long-term strategy and share profit with their employees and implement TQM completely to improve their international competitiveness.

Evolution of Innovation Cooperation Networks in the Marine Industry

This study aims to obtain the evolution of innovation cooperation by constructing and analysing patent cooperation networks for the field of Chinese marine industry. Total patents with universities, industries and research institutes are retrieved from SIPO patent database and patent networks are established by using social network analysis. Effects are found that firm-university-research institution innovation cooperation in the industry has been formed, but nodes have different cooperation preferences.