Path Refactoring of Chinese New Research and Development Institutes

Abstract

Chinese new Research and Development institutions are of crucial importance for innovation-driven development strategy. This research employs the Grey Model to statistically analyze the development trend of these institutes and figures out their operation modes drawing on empirical investigation from four new R&D institutions in Guangdong Province. Prediction results and investigations demonstrate that: 1) The number of new R&D institutes are going through a recovery from fluctuations; 2) There are mainly three nature types of new R&D institutes, namely the public institutes, enterprises, and private non-enterprise unit; 3) They have three common ways of production-education-research cooperation, including entrusted cooperations, construction of platforms or training bases, and enterprise incubation; 4) Different from traditional university institutions, new R&D institutions are under the cross influence of internal and external environments, which causes path dependence in their construction, such as administrative intervention, deficiency of self-sufficient capacity and institutional homogeneity. In this regard, this research proposes to reconstruct new R&D institutions in terms of reshaping the university-government cooperation model, improving institutes' self-sufficient capacity, and conducting mechanism innovation in manner of the interoperability mechanism, evaluation criterion and incentives mechanism.