Exploring the effect of political borders on university-industry collaborative research performance: Evidence from China’s Guangdong province

Chen, Guanghua; Yang, Guo-liang; He, Feng; Chen, Kaihua

doi:10.1016/j.technovation.2019.02.001

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“…Local governments in China significantly influence university–industry relationships by building, for example, basic collaborative innovation infrastructures or innovation and technology transfer platforms. These infrastructures are typically utilized to provide an institutional environment for the establishment and maintenance of local university–industry relationships (Chen, Yang, He, & Chen, 2019), which may contribute to the innovative activities of universities.…”

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An excessive propensity of nonlocal interactions generates opportunity costs within a region that may exceed the benefits of the nonlocal interactions per se. Moreover, the innovation system in China is governed vertically and horizontally by the central and local governments at the same time, while the rules associated with university–industry collaborations differ across regions (Chen, Yang, He, & Chen, 2019). Nonlocal interactions will produce substantial cross‐border transaction costs in terms of coordination and management (Barge‐Gil, 2013) which may also lead to inefficiencies.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Open innovation and innovative performance of universities: Evidence from China

Zeng

Cao

2020

Growth and Change

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University–industry interactions have been extensively discussed by economic geographers. However, while universities increasingly engage in local and nonlocal interactions with the industry, there is a lack of evidence concerning the consequences of universities becoming involved in these open innovation processes. Therefore, this study empirically examines the effects of local and nonlocal knowledge interactions on the innovative performance of universities by utilizing a large panel database constructed from a sample of 185 universities in China. First, we observe that both local and nonlocal interactions have an inverted U‐shaped relationship with university innovative performance. Second, local interactions combined with nonlocal interactions have a negative effect on the innovative performance of universities. Finally, we find that a balance is required between local and nonlocal interactions to enhance university performance. These results have important implications for policy design.

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Section: Literature Review and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Open innovation and innovative performance of universities: Evidence from China

Zeng

Cao

2020

Growth and Change

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“…On the other hand, the number of citations is also related to previous indicators obtained from the literature [32,71]. Moreover, the indicator of the number of innovations was also indicated by previous studies [52,68]. However, the high importance of this indicator, from the interviewees' perspective, may be related to the direction of the Qatar National Research Strategy (QNRS) [10] that aims to put Qatar on the world map as a research and innovation hub [87].…”

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confidence: 96%

“…From university perspective, the literature review revealed performance indicators of UIC. Indeed, the most frequent UIC performance indicators were (1) number of publications [16,29,31,34,[37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51], (2) number of registered patents [3,7,16,20,29,37,40,48,[50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58], (3) number of occurrences for each UIC activity (consulting and services, research, and training and education) [6,21,33,37,47,50,[59][60][61][62][63], (4) number of generated start-ups and spinoffs [16,37,…”

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“…From the construction industry's perspective, the literature review revealed performance indicators of UIC. The most frequent UIC performance indicators were (1) number of innovations (process/marketing/product/organisational) [2,33,37,52,59,62,68,[72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79], (2) number of registered patents [33, 54, 56-58, 73, 75, 80, 81], (3) income from innovations (process/marketing/product/organisational) [22, 73-75, 78, 82], (4) number of patent applications [2,22,54,75,78], and (5) number of publications [37,73,83,84].…”

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A Review and Comprehensive Analysis of the Performance of University – Construction Industry Collaboration

2021

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University–construction industry collaboration (UIC) has become an essential part of driving innovation and fostering construction industry growth. Measuring the performance of such collaboration is an emergent field of study that is scattered through the current literature. This study aims to identify the UIC performance indicators advocated by the top-cited references, and map UIC performance indicators in the context of the state of Qatar. The present research evaluated the literature related to measuring the performance of UIC, considering publications in selected scientific databases over the period of 2004 – 2020. The publications were obtained through a search of the Science Direct, Emerald Insight, Scopus, Web of Science, Springer Link, SAGE, Research Gate, and Taylor & Francis Online databases. Keywords used in searching for publications included university, construction industry, business, cooperation, collaboration, relation, performance, and measurement. The findings were discussed and confirmed in the context of Qatar’s education and innovation ecosystem through semi-structured interviews with two renowned scholars who are involved in UIC. The study revealed that both universities and the construction industry are increasingly focused on measuring the performance of collaboration through specific performance indicators. The results show that both universities and the construction industry share some interests when it comes to four key performance indicators. These performance indicators are (1) the number of registered patents, (2) the number of patent applications, (3) the number of innovations (process/marketing/product/organisational), and (4) the number of publications. This study contributes to a general understanding of measuring UIC performance and defining trends in this research field. It also highlights research limitations and provides an arena for future research in the field. Doi: 10.28991/cej-2021-03091688 Full Text: PDF

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Inward FDI and local firms' political connections in emerging markets: Evidence from China

Dong,

Ma,

Cui

2024

Global Strategy Journal

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Research SummaryResearch on the spillover effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) into emerging markets has primarily focused on local firms' productivity or innovation outcomes while overlooking their nonmarket strategies. Based on the resource dependence theory, we propose that inward FDI has a U‐shaped impact on local firms' political connections. This is because when FDI is at a low to medium level, its spillover benefits substitute for local firms' dependence on government resources. As FDI further increases, its competitive threats outweigh spillover benefits, driving local firms to a greater dependence on the government to neutralize the threats. This relationship is contingent on external and internal factors altering resource similarity between FDI and local government. Our analyses of Chinese listed firms support our predictions.Managerial SummaryThis study delves into how firms in emerging markets respond to inward FDI, particularly focusing on the role of political connections as a nonmarket strategy. Our findings offer valuable insights for both local firms and governments, providing a holistic view of the opportunities and challenges associated with inward FDI. We advise local firms to adopt a balanced approach by integrating both market and nonmarket strategies to maximize benefits, as relying solely on political connections may not be the most effective way to address the challenges posed by inward FDI. Additionally, our research emphasizes the importance of evaluating the resources provided by inward FDI against those provided by local governments, as the similarity of these resources alters the role of inward FDI as perceived by local firms.

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Exploring the effect of political borders on university-industry collaborative research performance: Evidence from China’s Guangdong province

Cited by 27 publications

References 64 publications

Open innovation and innovative performance of universities: Evidence from China

Open innovation and innovative performance of universities: Evidence from China

A Review and Comprehensive Analysis of the Performance of University – Construction Industry Collaboration

Inward FDI and local firms' political connections in emerging markets: Evidence from China

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