Head in the clouds and feet on the ground: Research priority setting in China

Benner, Mats; Liu, Li; Serger, Sylvia Schwaag

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“…In China, national authorities have played an important role in pursuing higher education excellence and diversity (Benner et al 2012). Over the past 20 years, Chinese higher education has been transformed from being a relatively small elite system into one of the largest higher education systems in the world.…”

Section: Growth Diversity Excellence and Governance In Chinese Highmentioning

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“…One of the dilemmas that can be identified in this two-tier form of governing higher education is that both central and regional/local authorities are interested in promoting highquality education and research, but that the higher education system in China has many objectives and aims it should fulfill (Benner et al 2012). It is also interesting to notice that several regional/local governments have selected a number of key universities in their own province or city, which they want to promote regarding status and academic quality (Luo 2008, 30-33).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Governance for excellence and diversity? The impact of central and regional affiliation for the strategic positioning of Chinese top universities

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Through analysis of the strategic ambitions of China's top universities, this article studies the relationship between governance structures at the system level and strategic institutional adaptations. In China, some top universities are governed directly by the national authorities while others have regional affiliations. By analyzing the strategic plans of a sample of universities in both categories the article examines how these differences in governance modes may impact the formal ambitions and objectives of the universities and discuss the potential system implications of these different governance modes, especially related to issues of excellence and diversity. The article find that differences in governance modes do affect the strategic positioning of Chinese universities, and different ways in which governance arrangements can be used to foster both excellence and diversity in a system perspective are discussed.

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Section: Growth Diversity Excellence and Governance In Chinese Highmentioning

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Governance for excellence and diversity? The impact of central and regional affiliation for the strategic positioning of Chinese top universities

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“…The bibliometric performance of China within different scientific fields has also been studied (Huang et al 2015;Sun and Hua 2015;Yan and Sun 2015;Yang et al 2015), as well as university-industry co-publishing (Fan, Yang and Chen 2015) and university-industry-research institute copublishing (Gao, Guo and Guan 2014) in China. Chinese science policy, including the role of KLs, is discussed in (Benner, Liu and Serger 2012).…”

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The role of the Chinese Key Labs in the international and national scientific arena revisited

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Yue

Rousseau

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In this contribution, which builds on and develops a study that was published more than 10 years ago, we address the role of the Chinese Key Labs (KLs) in the international and national scientific arena. We give a short overview of the position of KLs in China, including their budget and manpower. Based on large numbers of Chinese publications obtained from the Web of Science (WoS) and the Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD), the KLs are compared across publication years to the rest of China (ChRest) with respect to publication output and citation impact. We also look at collaboration in terms of co-publishing between the KLs and the ChRest. As to publications in the WoS, we found that the contribution of KLs compared with the ChRest is slightly and irregularly increasing (using full counting as well as fractional counting), whereas a stronger increasing trend is observed for the corresponding contribution in the CSCD. We observed an increase in the number of collaborations between KLs and Chinese colleagues, regardless of database. For WoS and field normalized citation indicators, we obtained the expected results that researchers at KLs perform considerably better than other Chinese colleagues and, moreover, perform clearly better than database average. As such we may conclude that KLs have lived up to their promise and made real impact on the international arena.

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“…A core theme outlined by the MLP was indigenous innovation, which has continued to be a programmatic and overarching emphasis in China's current stage of innovation system development (Benner, Liu, and Serger, 2012). The State Council has defined indigenous innovation as "original innovation, integrated innovation, and re-innovation based on assimilation and absorption of imported technology" (State Council, 2006a: 10).…”

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Spurring Innovation-led Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean through Public Procurement

Uyarra¹,

Moñux²,

Li³

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work is licensed under a Creative Commons IGO 3.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC-IGO BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO) license (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/legalcode) and may be reproduced with attribution to the IDB and for any noncommercial purpose. No derivative work is allowed.Any dispute related to the use of the works of the IDB that cannot be settled amicably shall be submitted to arbitration pursuant to the UNCITRAL rules. The use of the IDB's name for any purpose other than for attribution, and the use of IDB's logo shall be subject to a separate written license agreement between the IDB and the user and is not authorized as part of this CC-IGO license.Note that link provided above includes additional terms and conditions of the license.The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Inter-American Development Bank, its Board of Directors, or the countries they represent.http://www.iadb.org 2016 ABSTRACT * Public procurement accounts for a significant proportion of overall demand for goods and services. Thus, it could be a useful tool for fostering innovation and economic growth. While interest in the use of public procurement as industrial policy is not new, its potential to spur demand for innovative products and services, create incentives for business innovation, and accelerate the diffusion of new technologies has received much policy attention in recent years. The aim of this study is to advance knowledge on the role of public procurement as a demand-side policy instrument in stimulating firm innovation in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. In LAC countries, public procurement systems account for 20 percent of GDP, which suggests a considerable untapped potential to use public procurement for innovation (PPI) to strengthen their economic position and improve public service provision. The report first reviews the evidence on the implementation and impact of instruments and structures introduced to support PPI in selected developed countries (the United States, the European Union, Estonia, Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, China, and the supranational case of EU procurement policy), identifying useful policy lessons for LAC countries. It then focuses on emerging innovation friendly procurement practices introduced in three selected LAC countries: Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. These countries offer a diverse picture in terms of the institutional path they have followed for the development of public policy for innovation/pre-commercial procurement (PPI-PCP) policies as well as important differences in the level of development of their innovation systems.JEL codes: O25, O38 Keywords: demand side innovation policy, innovation, Latin America and Caribbean countries, public policy, public procurement * The authors wish to thank the experts interviewed in the countries studied, who provided valuable insights on the issues discussed in this report. Without their assistance, this report could not have b...

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Head in the clouds and feet on the ground: Research priority setting in China

Cited by 21 publications

References 14 publications

Governance for excellence and diversity? The impact of central and regional affiliation for the strategic positioning of Chinese top universities

Governance for excellence and diversity? The impact of central and regional affiliation for the strategic positioning of Chinese top universities

The role of the Chinese Key Labs in the international and national scientific arena revisited

Spurring Innovation-led Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean through Public Procurement

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