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  • Innovation Ecosystem and Regional Development
    Zhang Qiang,Ge Fuli,Zhang Lu,Qi Long,Hao Biao
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(16): 37-48. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023010339
    Resilience is of great significance for the development of enterprises. On the basis of the domestic and foreign literature on enterprise resilience in the core collection database of CNKI and Web of Science as the research sample, this study uses the traditional literature review method and the bibliometric method to analyze the existing research. Starting with the research topic, it systematically compares the development context of domestic and foreign enterprise resilience-related literature, clarifies the key words of literature retrieval, retrieves the academic achievements in relevant databases as the sample data of this paper, and uses CiteSpace software to conduct quantitative analysis and systematic combing of relevant literature at home and abroad, attempting to draw the research progress of the development context and framework logic of existing enterprise resilience research at home and abroad through comparative analysis.#br#Firstly, this paper finds that the current research on the connotation of enterprise resilience at home and abroad mainly starts from the matching perspective and the integration perspective, and clarifies the concept of enterprise resilience as follows: enterprises identify potential risks in the environment, micro-individuals use their resource endowment ability to interact with other stakeholders and generate meso-organizational resilience, and organizations adopt a series of learning mechanisms and development strategies to interact and co-evolve with the external environment to form macro-social resilience. Then, the macro-resilience formed by micro-resilience and meso-resilience contributes to the development of enterprise resilience to better cope with the uncertainty of future risks.#br#Secondly, enterprise resilience is driven by self-organization factors and external social factors. (1)Self-organization factors refer to the factors that exclude the forced drive of external forces and the coordination of various elements within the organization, including the micro-individual level and the meso-organizational level. The micro-individual level includes two aspects: employee personality traits and leader traits; the meso organizational level includes three aspects: organizational relationship, organizational resources and organizational structure. (2) Meanwhile, enterprises will face many social factors in the process of development, including corporate social responsibility and corporate social networks.#br#Thirdly, in the three stages of identification and prediction, cooperation and defense, adjustment and coordination of enterprise development, the three levels of micro-meso-macro continuously carry out the reciprocating iteration of cognition-practice-re-cognition-re-practice and finally enterprise resilience is formed. (1) In the pre-judgment and identification stage, the dynamic changes of the external environment affect the individuals in the organization through the characteristics of leaders and employees. The micro-individuals form a crisis prevention awareness and send a response signal to the enterprises, so that the individual can take a series of practical behaviors such as identifying their own resources and capabilities and predicting potential risks, so as to promote the individuals to generate a crisis response mechanism and form a micro-level resilience. In the stage of cooperation and defense, enterprises adopt practical actions to enhance the resilience of the organizational structure, cooperating to build a wide range of organizational relationship networks to enhance the defensiveness and sensitivity against crises. In the stage of adjustment and coordination, enterprises aim to adjust the relationship between social resources, and actively build corporate social networks and other practical behaviors to promote the evolution of capabilities against crises. (2) The formation of enterprise resilience is a process in which the micro-resilience of leaders and employees accumulates and combines to form the meso-resilience of the organization, and then drives synergy with external stakeholders to generate macro-resilience. (3) Micro-resilience, meso-resilience, and macro-resilience not only promote the formation of enterprise resilience layer by layer but also play a role in enhancing and strengthening the former.#br#Fourthly, enterprises generate internal and external resilience based on the subjects at different levels and bring different effects to work together on the future development of enterprises.Enterprise internal resilience is mainly formed in the identification and prediction stage and the cooperation and defense stage, and the external macro-resilience is developed in the the adjustment and coordination stage. #br#Finally, this paper proposes to further explore how enterprises should interpret environmental information and allocate resources and other practical issues. The negative limitations of the effectiveness of corporate resilience should be stressed, and relevant research on enterprise resilience in the context of Chinese culture warrants further exploration.#br#
  • New Quality Productive Forces Column
    Zhang Lihuan,Zhang Jinchang
    Science & Technology Progress and Policy. 2024, 41(20): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.L2024XZ212
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    Amid the rapid progression of technological and industrial revolutions, China's traditional low-cost advantages are gradually diminishing, necessitating a shift toward competitive advantages grounded in core technologies. In response to this pivotal transformation, President Xi Jinping proposed the theory of "new quality productive forces", summarizing the developmental trajectory of advanced productive forces, and the recent trends in technological innovation, intelligentization, and green development, along with the crucial role of new technologies, industries, business models, and forms in contemporary productivity growth. The concept of new quality productivity has emerged in the wake of the digital economy's rapid expansion in recent years. This burgeoning economic paradigm is increasingly integrating with, enhancing, and redefining the contours of the real economy, serving as a pivotal force in its structural evolution and transformative energy dynamics. In this new phase of rapid technological and industrial transformations, the deep integration of the digital and real economies has become an essential pathway for advancing new quality productive forces.
    To drive the development of new quality productive forces through the integration of the digital and real economies, it is essential to foster the convergence of digital and physical technologies. This convergence creates both the necessity and possibility for the integration of the digital and real economies. On one hand, digital technological innovation and application can leverage the diversity and rich application scenarios of physical technologies, accelerating the fusion of digital technologies with various applications and promoting the transformation of scientific achievements into actual productivity. This facilitates the scaling and industrialization of emerging technological fields, enabling enterprises to explore new domains and create new opportunities, thus providing new momentum for the development of new quality productive forces. On the other hand, physical technological innovation and the digital transformation of enterprises can capitalize on the additive, synergistic, and multiplying effects of digital technologies. This drives digital and intelligent transformation across R&D, production, and distribution processes, enhancing cost reduction, efficiency improvement, and revenue growth. It promotes the advancement of foundational capabilities and fosters new technologies, business models, and forms, all of which contribute to the development of new quality productive forces.
    Therefore, this study, using data from China's A-share manufacturing enterprises from 2012 to 2022, explores the impact and mechanisms of digital-physical technology integration on the development of new quality productive forces. In light of the three foundational elements of new quality workers, production tools, and labor, this study expands upon these by incorporating the dimensions of technological innovation, digital transformation, and sustainable development. It proposes new indicators to evaluate the productivity of this new quality labor force. It is found that the integration of digital and physical technologies significantly promotes the improvement of new quality productive forces in enterprises. By exploring the mechanisms of enterprise transformation and upgrading, the study confirms that the integration of digital and physical technologies enhances new quality productive forces through channels such as high-tech, high-efficiency, and high-end transformations; it further reveals the role of production relations, demonstrating that the ownership attributes of state-owned enterprises, intensified inter-enterprise competition, deepened inter-enterprise cooperation, and government regulation all contribute to the enhancement of new quality productive forces through digital-physical technology integration;it uncovers that digital industrialization enterprises, industry digitalization enterprises, and new real economy enterprises are differentially influenced by regional digital infrastructure and digital innovation capabilities in terms of how digital-physical technology integration drives new-quality productive forces development.
    In brief, this study provides a new quantitative measurement of new quality productive forces, and the findings of this study enrich the literature on the measurement methods and mechanisms of new quality productive forces and provide data-based evidence for the formulation of relevant policies. Future studies could examine the technological dichotomy between digital and physical technologies. Additionally, it would be insightful to investigate how the maturity and modularity of physical technologies influence their integration with digital counterparts. Beyond the synthesis of digital and physical technologies, future studies might also focus on the dynamic interplay and convergence of digital economy constituents—such as data elements and digital platforms—with traditional real economy components. This convergence at the elemental level can be perceived as a mechanism for integrating the digital and real economies.
  • Review
    Li Ye,Yan Xiaoyong
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(14): 151-160. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023030635
    Innovation is the key factor for an individual, an organization and a country to maintain their competitive advantages.Due to the complexity of technological innovation and the dispersion of knowledge, no single entity can carry out major innovation or systematic product supply alone.Therefore, the interdependent innovation ecosystem of multilateral entities has attracted more and more attention in theoretical research and practice.Co-evolution is the core essence of the enterprise innovation ecosystem and the systematic force to promote the sustainable development of innovation,but the increasingly complex and turbulent global environment has brought great challenges to the collaborative evolution of innovation ecosystem, such as epidemic situations, international trade friction, wars and natural disasters.Thus, it is necessary to study the co-evolution mechanism of enterprise innovation ecosystem to promote the steady development of ecosystem and value creation.The co-evolution of participants has always been the central theme of innovation ecology research, but the theoretical system of this research is far from mature.Vertically, the current research basically stays at the level of phenomenon analysis of the evolution process, but there is still a lack of systematic and in-depth discussion on the co-evolution mechanism behind it.Horizontally, the research from different disciplines is insufficient and the development is very uneven.This not only limits the development of ecosystem theory construction, but also hinders the in-depth and complete understanding of innovation ecology.#br#The research on the connotation and characteristics of innovation ecosystem and their collaborative evolution, as well as the construction and evolution of innovation ecosystems, mainly focuses on the fields of strategy and innovation management, with case studies as the main research methods.From the perspective of complexity science, relevant research views the innovation ecosystem as a complex adaptive system, and conducts a theoretical analysis of its self-organization and adaptive mechanisms.Relying on literature research, this study puts forward a theoretical framework for the study of co-evolution mechanism of innovation ecosystem in the hope of laying a foundation for the study on co-evolution mechanism of enterprise innovation ecosystem and figuring out the future research direction.#br#In this study, the relevant literature of high-quality journals at home and abroad from 2017 to 2022 is obtained through keyword search, and the relevant classic literature is collected by snowballing the important scholars and important periodical literature in the retrieved literature.The relevant literature obtained by retrieval is screened, and the relevant literature is classified and sorted according to the research theme, theoretical basis and research methods, and the development context and research theme of the co-evolution research on innovation ecosystem are sorted out.#br#Firstly, the study introduces the related research topics distributed in different disciplines, including the connotation and characteristics of innovation ecosystem and its co-evolution, the construction and evolution processes of innovation ecosystem, and the related research on multi-agent co-evolution mechanisms.Secondly, it proposes a multidisciplinary and comprehensive theoretical framework for the study on the co-evolution mechanism of enterprise innovation ecosystem.Among them, the related research in the field of strategy and innovation management is the foundation, the modeling and simulation of multi-agent co-evolution provide reference for research methods, and the complexity science theory provides a holistic explanation framework.Finally, the study points out the direction, method, path and key situation of future research.The co-evolution mechanism of innovation ecosystem participants is multifaceted and can be discussed in different dimensions, including behavior, structure and function.#br#This study puts forward a multidisciplinary theoretical framework for the study on co-evolution mechanism of innovation ecosystem.This laid a theoretical foundation for the research on the co-evolution mechanism of innovation ecosystem, promoted the co-evolution research of innovation ecosystem from the phenomenon level to the mechanism level, and promoted interdisciplinary research on the co-evolution of innovation ecosystem.In addition, the discussion on future research direction, methods, paths, and key situations reveals potential research opportunities.#br#
  • Digital Innovation Ecosystems
    Jing Lingling,Huang Huili
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(16): 13-23. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.YX202305136
    Regional innovation capability is a fundamental element for the in-depth implementation of the national innovation-driven development strategy. Identifying the influencing elements of regional innovation capability and discovering the linkage mechanism of regional innovation capability is the key to accelerating the enhancement of regional innovation capability. With the extensive and in-depth promotion of digital technology, digital technology and regional innovation present a high degree of coupling. However, the current research on digital innovation ecosystems is still in the development stage, especially on the relationship between the coupling of digital innovation ecosystem elements and regional innovation capacity there are still some research gaps. Therefore, it is necessary to further explore the connection between the two. Are there any necessary conditions between cause and effect? Are there any combinations of "different cause and effect" ? What is the impact of these combinations on the enhancement of regional innovation capability? Are there any laws of time and space? This will further open the "black box" of the operating mechanism of digital innovation ecosystem elements and regional innovation capabilities.#br#Most of the existing studies have only focused on the "net benefit" of a single element of the innovation ecosystem on regional innovation capabilities, ignoring the impact of the linkage combination of elements. Although the traditional QCA analysis method has improved the problem of multi-factor linkage combination, it is limited by the static and unsaturated theoretical construction. Most of the multi-factor linkage analysis uses static cross-sectional data. The problem of "time blind zone" cannot effectively examine the influence of time and space on the linkage combination of multiple factors. Thus, this study takes the regional innovation of 31 provinces as the research objects, uses the dynamic QCA analysis method to build the analysis framework of "digital innovation subject-digital innovation platform-digital innovation ecological environment"; it further analyzes the provincial panel data of 31 provinces and cities from 2017 to 2021 from the two-dimensional perspective of time and space, and explores the configuration path to drive regional innovation capabilities.#br#The research finds that the government, enterprises, intermediaries and digital governance environment play vital roles in enhancing regional innovation capabilities. The necessity of the variables including "digital governance environment" and "digital financial inclusion environment" exhibits a clear time effect. There are four paths for the configuration of high-level regional innovation capabilities, which can be summarized into three modes: "innovation subject + innovation platform" driven mode, "innovation subject + innovation platform + innovation environment" driven mode, and "innovation environment" driven mode. There are eight paths in the configuration of low-level regional innovation capabilities, which can be summarized into three modes: "innovation subject + innovation environment" restriction mode, "innovation environment" restriction mode, and "innovation subject + innovation platform" restriction mode. In the time dimension, the four configurations at high levels all showed a consistent downward trend in 2020. In the spatial dimension, the level of regional innovation capabilities presents an obvious unbalanced development between the east and the west. It is suggested that localities should choose appropriate digital innovation ecosystems according to their local conditions to cultivate new regional innovation power and promote the new development of digital China.#br#This study applies the dynamic QCA research method to examine the factors influencing regional innovation capability, analyzes the relationship between digital innovation ecosystem elements and regional innovation capability, makes up for the time blind zone in previous QCA research, and explores typical cases of multiple combinations of paths from the spatial and temporal dimensions, providing theoretical references and inspirations for the development of regional innovation capacity. It also discusses typical cases of multiple combinations of paths from both spatial and temporal dimensions, which provides theoretical reference and enlightenment for the development of regional innovation capability. Future research on regional innovation capability can be explored from key cities and high-tech industries, and makes empirical analysis of the technological innovation process of national key facilities.#br#
  • Green Innovation Column
    Zhao Fang, Jiang Guoliang, Xu Yi, Li Wenting
    Science & Technology Progress and Policy. 2024, 41(18): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2024050313
    Stimulating regional green innovation's vitality and harnessing the enabling effects of digital industry agglomeration on regional green innovation are crucial for high-quality economic and social development. Green tech innovation supports economic transformation and sustainability, enhancing efficiency and achieving sustainable development goals. Digital industries alleviate corporate costs, reduce pollution, and provide financial backing for green innovation.Understanding the impact and internal mechanism of digital industry agglomeration on regional green innovation is key to unleashing their potential and improving regional green innovation systems.
    Therefore, this study first constructs a theoretical framework and discusses the impact of digital industry agglomeration on regional green innovation from the two dimensions of innovation factors and innovation environment. On the one hand, digital industry agglomeration can accelerate the agglomeration of innovation factors such as human capital, technology and capital, provide factor support for regional green technology innovation, and thus help improve regional green technology innovation capabilities; on the other hand, digital industry agglomeration will also impact external environmental factors that affect green technology innovation, such as government environmental regulation,green financial development, and market competition pressure, thereby enhancing regional green innovation vitality. In addition, considering that digital industry agglomeration is closely related to the government's digital support, marketization level, and digital foundation level, the above factors will not only directly affect the speed and scale of digital industry agglomeration,but also have an impact on the green technology innovation effect of digital industry agglomeration. Therefore, the study analyzes the possible differential impacts of digital industry agglomeration on green technology innovation from the three dimensions of government digital support, marketization level, and digital foundation level.
    The study employs the panel fixed effects model, the mediation mechanism model, and the instrumental variable method to conduct tests, using the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2011 to 2022. It draws three conclusions. First, digital industry agglomeration significantly improves regional green technology innovation level,and the conclusion still holds true after robustness testing by adding interactive fixed effects,adjusting samples,changing variable measurement methods,instrumental variables, etc. Second, digital industry agglomeration can not only accelerate the aggregation of technological innovation factors such as human capital, technology, and R&D funds, but also strengthen government environmental regulation, accelerate the development of green finance, and increase market competition pressure, thereby promoting the improvement of regional green innovation levels. Third, the agglomeration of digital industries has strong digital support for the government and a high level of marketization, the promotion effect of green innovation in areas with low digital basic level is stronger than that in areas with weak government digital support, low marketization level and high digital basic level.
    Corresponding policy recommendations are proposed from three perspectives. First,with the development of digital industry clusters as the starting point, it is essential to promote the innovation of production technology and methods through green technology innovation,and further stimulate the two-way progress effect between digitalization and greening. To be specific, it is necessary to continue to refine the digital ecosystem to leverage the benefits of shared resources, collaborative innovation, enhanced efficiency, and cost reduction from the agglomeration of digital industries, and stimulate new momentum for regional green technology innovation and the development of a green economy. Meanwhile, it is crucial to reinforce policy guidance, align the orientation of digital industries towards green development through strategic macroeconomic policies, and improve the coordination between the growth of the green and digital economies to ensure the harmonization of ecological, economic, and social benefits. Secondly, in the future, local governments should optimize the allocation of innovation factors such as talents,technology,and capital,realize the effective connection between the innovation chain and the industrial chain,and further optimize the regional green innovation ecology,accelerate the development of green finance,and ensure the function of green finance in promoting high-quality development. Finally, different regions should adopt different development strategies, adapt to local conditions and time, avoid the "one-size-fits-all" approach, and build the advantages of digital industry clusters and release the dividends of green technology innovation in combination with their own characteristics.
  • Innovation in Science and Technology Management
    Li Tianzhu,Ma Qing
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(18): 44-54. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023050045
    It is of strategic significance to break through the bottlenecks of core technologies in key fields, and these breakthroughs are strongly related to the technological gap and self-reliance in science and technology, and existing research has roughly been divided into two divisions: at the micro level, the concept, characteristics, identification methods, mode paths, and breakthrough factors of core technologies in key fields are summarized; at the macro level, the breakthrough paths of core technology innovation are discussed from the perspectives of system structure, mechanism system, and supporting policies. The relevant research focuses primarily on theoretical speculation, with little empirical research on specific cases, and its guiding value in management and policy in practice needs to be improved. Thus, this paper uses the exploratory single case study method to analyze the specific innovation activities of enterprises and opens the "theoretical black box" for enterprises to break through core technology mechanisms from the perspective of dynamic capability evolution.#br#By analyzing the development process of BGI′s gene sequencer technology in China, this paper proposes a breakthrough mechanism model for core technologies in key fields based on dynamic capability evolution. The model demonstrates that enterprise-led breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields generally occur through four stages of dynamic capability evolution: preface, transformation, transition, and diffusion, and it is a positive feedback process in which dynamic capability evolution and ecological innovation promote each other. Among them, the pre-order of competence accumulates strength for breaking through core technologies in key fields through the commercial application of foreign technology products, focusing on perception and capture, so that enterprises can occupy a higher niche in the commercialization of the industrial chain′s middle and lower reaches. The breakthrough difficulty of core technologies is in the stage of capability transformation, and it develops in three dimensions: perception ability, capture ability, and reconstruction ability. In the transition period, the capability transition stage is critical for core technology breakthroughs. Chinese enterprises started by learning foreign technologies, and they have occupied a niche in technology research and development, and initially formed the trend of core technology breakthroughs on a technical level. Through large-scale R&D, independent and controllable core technology systems and product systems are formed to occupy a high niche in the technological R&D link in the upstream of the industrial chain. In the capability diffusion stage, enterprises use the core technologies in key fields they control to develop the innovation ecosystem, relying primarily on the ecological reconstruction ability to expand the dynamic capability of enterprises into the dynamic capability of the innovation ecosystem, and realize independent control and domestic substitution in the two main links of technology research and development and market adoption, driving the entire industry to achieve self-reliant development.#br#To successfully break through core technologies in key fields, businesses must follow a set of rules, including completing the reverse breakthrough of "application-research and development", adopting a "different technical route from foreign enterprises" in order to construct a "technology-product" system, creating and maintaining an independent and controllable supply chain system, and setting up an ecosystem of platform-based innovation. It should be noted that the breakthroughs of core technologies led by enterprises are time-sensitive catch-up activities that frequently require catching up under the established technological paradigm and competing with foreign enterprises by building an independent and controllable technological system, supply chain, and innovation ecosystem to replace or even expel foreign enterprises′ products. As a result, it is necessary to begin at a higher technical level and select appropriate methods for directly obtaining international cutting-edge technology. More importantly, in order to truly complete the breakthroughs of core technologies in key fields, Chinese enterprises must accelerate the diffusion of core technologies, promote related enterprises to form an autonomous and controllable supply chain, and then build an autonomous and controllable innovation ecosystem around core technologies in key fields, widely absorb different types of innovation subjects, and establish various forms of collaborative research and development.#br#
  • Innovation in Science and Technology Management
    Tong Ziqiang,Li Buxi,Yang Lei
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(14): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.H202308136
    With the deep integration of modern information technology into the real economy, digital transformation enables the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, expedites the birth of new industries, new forms and new models, and promotes enterprise value creation.However, the research on its impact mechanism is insufficient, and from a static perspective, the existing research has not yet explored the role of enterprise life cycle theory in the relationship between digital transformation and value creation, while the resources owned by enterprises at different stages, including the organizational structure, the external environment and the strategic measures are quite different, which may lead to different impacts of digital transformation on enterprise value creation at different stages.Therefore, the introduction of the dynamic perspective of enterprise life cycle in this paper can better reveal the dynamic law of the impact of digital transformation on value creation, and help enterprises adopt appropriate contingency strategies to implement digital transformation.#br#To this end, this study focuses on the impact of enterprise life cycle on the relationship between digital transformation and value creation, integrates the theory of life cycle and the theory of competitive strategy into the research framework of the relationship between digital transformation and value creation, and establishes a theoretical model among digital transformation, competitive strategy and value creation from the perspective of life cycle.Specifically, it first uses the machine learning method based on Word2Vec to build digital transformation and competitive strategy indicators, forming unbalanced panel data between 2016 and 2022 for A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen; then, it empirically tests the relationship among digital transformation, competitive strategy and value creation from the perspective of life cycle.#br#In the first part, the study verifies the role of enterprise life cycle in the relationship between digital transformation and value creation.It is found that the positive and significant impact of digital transformation of listed companies on enterprise value creation is mainly concentrated in growing enterprises, but not in mature enterprises.The findings expand the research on the impact of digital transformation of traditional industries on corporate value creation, reveal the boundary of enterprise life cycle in the relationship between digital transformation and value creation, and provide a way to further explore the process of digital transformation affecting value creation in the future.In the second part, by integrating life cycle theory and competitive strategy theory into the research framework of the relationship between digital transformation and value creation, the study establishes a theoretical model about digital transformation, competitive strategy and value creation from the perspective of life cycle, and clarifies the impact mechanism of digital transformation on value creation.It is confirmed that the digital transformation of enterprises is conducive to the formation of differentiation strategy, and value creation is enhanced through the mediating variable of differentiation strategy, which is mainly aimed at enterprises in the growth period of their life cycle.In the third part, this study proposes and verifies the moderating role of enterprise scale and time trends between digital transformation and value creation.The impact of enterprise digital transformation on value creation is found to be stronger in smaller enterprises; as time goes by, the impact of enterprise digital transformation on value creation becomes weaker and weaker.#br#In summary, this study reveals the boundary of enterprise life cycle in the relationship between digital transformation and value creation, opens the black box of the relationship between digital transformation and value creation, and provides theoretical and empirical evidence for a comprehensive and objective evaluation of the effect of digital transformation.In the development of digital technology in China, traditional enterprises are expected to focus on making full use of digital transformation to achieve differentiated leadership and value creation in the growth stage and strive to enter the mature stage with the largest market share.In the mature stage, it is difficult for enterprises to gain competitive advantages only by relying on the role of digital transformation in reducing costs and improving efficiency, and they should also promote substantive R&D and innovation in enterprises to effectively avoid the possibility that the positive impact of digital transformation on value creation may gradually weaken from the growth stage to the mature stage.#br#
  • Innovation in Science and Technology Management
    An Xin,Liu Dihang,Xu Shuo
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(17): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023030746
    Disruptive technology is the key to the development of national economy and the core combat effectiveness of great power game competition, and the cultivation and development of disruptive technology is of great significance and far-reaching influence. To achieve the goal of "Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutralization", it is critical to strengthen green and low-carbon scientific and technological innovation, and closely track the international frontier's leading technologies. To this end, the measurement and identification of disruptive technologies in the field of "dual carbon" provide assistance to relevant government departments and enterprises for the strategic deployment of future industrial development, the scientific and accurate formulation of macro policies, the realization of technological overtaking, and the improvement of core competitiveness, and it has become a key issue to gain insight into the global "dual carbon" technology opportunities and seize the commanding heights of scientific and technological competition.#br#Following the essential characteristic theory of disruptive technology, this study makes disruptive technology measurement that integrates multi-source data, including growth rate indicators, innovation indicators and influence indicators, and comprehensively considers the impact of technology on the scientific community, technology community, and social economy community. Among them, the growth of technology is measured by the growth rate index to calculate the difference between the growth of each topic in the current year and the previous year; the CIM model is used in the innovation index to judge the inheritance and breakthrough of the previous research in the paper or patent; social impact indicators are used to analyze and count the frequency of searches and other relevant statistics for a certain keyword displayed in Google during a certain period of time.#br#In order to effectively identify disruptive technologies in the field of "dual carbon", this paper collects 38 692 paper data and 9 532 patent data, and retrieves the search frequency data of public topic representative words from Google Trends to form a multi-source fusion dataset. In the process of method selection, this paper selects the improved CDTM(Common and Distinctive Topic Model) model for topic extraction from multiple data sources. This method maximizes the utilization of shared information among multiple corpora, allowing for not only the extraction of specific topics for a single data source, but also the integration of paper and patent data to obtain a common theme for multi-source data. By analyzing the results of CDTM model and manually judging them one by one, 10 topics are finally obtained for identifying disruptive technologies in the field of "dual carbon", and then the disruption index score is calculated to measure the disruption of these topics.#br#Four disruptive technologies in the field of "dual carbon" are identified,namely biochar adsorption technology, organic biochar-based fertilizer preparation technology, biomass cracking biochar technology and biomass pyrolysis biochar technology. The analysis shows that all four technologies are related to internationally recognized “carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) technologies”, and China and the United States occupy overwhelmingly dominant positions in the field of "dual carbon" research. Hence, China should provide preferential resources, continue to deepen technological innovation, and improve intellectual property protection.#br#In regards to the technology bottlenecks, it is necessary to open the catch-up strategy for the world's core technology, increase the R&D investment in basic disciplines, and achieve technical overtaking on the bend to improve the core competitiveness. In view of the four disruptive technologies identified in the field of "dual carbon", it is suggested that the relevant departments of the government and enterprises focus on research and development, rationally allocate valuable and limited resources, and improve the efficiency of research and development. In terms of macro-government regulation, it is essential to improve the market diversification investment mechanism, encourage social capital to enter the field of disruptive technologies in a market-oriented way, and set up funds to provide financial support for them. In summary, the measurement and identification of disruptive technologies in the field of "dual carbon" based on the multi-source data fusion method helps to comprehensively understand the frontier of scientific and technological innovation in the field of "dual carbon", and provides a new basis for the identification and research of disruptive technologies.#br#
  • Industrial Technological Progress
    Zhu Jianmin,Zhang Huimei
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(15): 44-54. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023060187
    The coupling development of industry can effectively improve factor efficiency, synergy efficiency, and innovation efficiency against diverse adversities, thus promoting the quality of industrial structure and development. However, there have been differences in the transformation direction, progress, and effectiveness of subsystems within the manufacturing industry, which may lead to imbalanced industrial coupling. According to the present research, industrial resilience and green innovation are two key drivers for the manufacturing industry to achieve coupling development. An industry with strong resilience can effectively mitigate adversity pressure through self-recovery and self-adjustment mechanisms, and actively improve its resilience status through self-learning, thereby promoting industrial coupling evolution. Green innovation not only advocates the value recognition of environmental and social responsibilities but also establishes mechanisms for assigning meaning and deepening consensus on partner interests, thereby promoting a benign ecological competition pattern within the industry, expanding stakeholder networks, and standardizing ecological technology constraints. Additionally, it generates innovation spillover benefits and facilitates the evolution of the manufacturing industry. Therefore, it is necessary to clarify the status quo of industrial coupling development in Chinese manufacturing and reveal the mechanisms, paths, and impacts of influencing variables to provide decision-making support for industrial coupling development and governance.#br#This study utilizes data from the overall manufacturing industry between 2017 and 2022, employing various econometric tools and methods to analyze the level of coupling development in the Chinese manufacturing industry over the past five years. It also discusses the impact of industrial resilience and green innovation, as well as the moderating effects of trade frictions. Firstly, by measuring coupling with a coupling coordination model for the manufacturing industry's value chain structure, it is found that the Chinese manufacturing industry has gradually moved out of the primary coordination state and entered the intermediate-high coordination development stage. Secondly, using super-efficiency SBM, the entropy weight method, and multiple regression analysis, the study reveals that industrial resilience and green innovation have positive impacts on the coupling development of the manufacturing industry. Trade frictions enhance the relationship between industrial resilience and the coupling development of manufacturing industry. Furthermore, the sudden impact of the pandemic hindered the development process of manufacturing industry coupling, resulting in a sharp downturn and rebound in the curve in early 2020. Finally, robustness tests are conducted by changing weighting measurement methods, sub-sample regression tests, and altering econometric model settings, and the above conclusions remain valid.#br#This study contributes in three main aspects. Firstly, it introduces the concept of " coupling development of manufacturing industry" from the perspective of GVC collaboration, differentiating it from the traditional coupling research model of the "three chains". This expands and deepens the connotation of industrial coupling development. Secondly, it explores the theoretical mechanisms and important influencing factors of coupling development of manufacturing industry , revealing the deep-seated issues in coupling development and enriching existing research conclusions. Finally, it includes trade frictions as a moderating context in the analysis framework, adding practical relevance to the external impact on the coupling development of industry, and providing a real-world basis for optimizing industrial trade policies.#br#Management insights are provided on how to effectively promote the coupling development in the manufacturing industry. Firstly, efforts should be made to build industrial resilience and security. There is a need to actively integrate into the international circulation mechanism, expand domestic demand and the demand for high-end products, enhance the supply chain system of the industry chain, and cultivate a group of high-quality leading enterprises to drive the synergy of the industry chain upstream and downstream. Secondly, comprehensive support should be given to introduce green innovation technical talents, improve financing incentives for green innovation, promote green tax reform, enhance the environmental information disclosure system, and establish effective supervision of clean production. Finally, a rational and prudent approach should be taken when handling trade friction disputes. At the macro-level, a cautious and vigilant attitude toward trade frictions should be maintained, bilateral communication and consultation mechanisms should be established, and the advantages of countries along the "Belt and Road" should be leveraged to actively expand and cultivate emerging markets. At the micro-level, companies should establish more information cooperation platforms, improve knowledge and technological innovation efficiency, and enhance their adaptability to trade frictions.#br#
  • Enterprise Innovation Management
    Ma Liang,Gao Jun,Li Yaning
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(17): 76-86. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023010137
    The Chinese government has been devoted to fulfilling its dual carbon target. As a pillar industry in China, the manufacturing industry is also the main energy consumer and the main force behind carbon emission reduction. Especially under the goal of sustainable development, promoting green transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industry is an important driving force for high-end, intelligent and green development of the manufacturing industry. However, green transformation is not a quick fix, and there are still two dilemmas in China's enterprise green transformation: insufficient transformation power and insufficient transformation ability. The rise of digital technology has brought new opportunities for the green transformation of manufacturing enterprises. However, few papers have extended the study to green transformation and explored the impact of digitalization on the green transformation of enterprises. After all, green innovation is only a key capability or intermediate link in the green transformation of enterprises, and whether it can ultimately help enterprises achieve the harmonious coexistence of green transformation is still to be explored.#br#Therefore, given the dilemma of insufficient power and capacity for green transformation of manufacturing enterprises, this study chooses the perspective of improving green entrepreneurial orientation and green innovation capacity to deeply investigate the impact of digitalization on green transformation and upgrading of manufacturing enterprises in China and its mechanism of action. It takes Chinese listed manufacturing companies from 2007 to 2021 as a sample using the methods of machine learning and text analysis. At the theoretical level, the study constructs micro-comprehensive indicators of green transformation to explore the impact of digitalization on green transformation. Unlike most previous literature, this paper innovatively adds a quadratic term of corporate digitalization to the model while revealing the advantages and disadvantages of digitalization to verify the complex linear relationship between digitalization and green transformation. It investigates the mechanism of corporate digitization and green transformation, using green entrepreneurship orientation and green innovation as mediators. Then it proposes a feasible path for digitalization to influence green transformation and deepen the theoretical research related to green transformation and the upgrading of enterprises. The study further investigates the impact of digital empowerment on the green transformation and upgrading of enterprises and its multi-stage path by building a mediating effect model with green entrepreneurship orientation-green innovation as the chain. In addition, the impact of environmental regulation is taken as a situational variable. Finally, it explores the impact of digitalization on the green transformation of enterprises under different ownership, pollution levels and Belt and Road policies, providing an empirical basis for the green transformation and upgrading of different types of enterprises.#br#The study shows that digitalization has a significant empowering effect on green transformation and upgrade, and effectively promotes green transformation and upgrading of manufacturing enterprises, and there is a "digital divide" effect that still holds after a series of robustness tests. The mechanism analysis shows that digitalization can solve the problem of insufficient motivation and capacity for green transformation by empowering green entrepreneurial orientation and green innovation, and indirectly promote green transformation and upgrading of enterprises. Green entrepreneurial orientation and green innovation achieve positive serial mediation between digitalization and green transformation and upgrading of enterprises. Interaction analysis shows that digitalization can synergize with environmental regulations to promote green transformation and upgrading. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the contribution of digitalization to green transformation is more pronounced in state-owned enterprises, high-pollution industries, and enterprises supported by the Belt and Road Initiative. Economic consequence analysis shows that digitalization can improve enterprise performance through green transformation and upgrading, balancing environmental and economic benefits.#br#The study enriches the non-economic consequences of digital transformation, identifies new factors influencing green transformation, and complements the theoretical understanding of the antecedent variables of green transformation. At the same time, it reveals the mechanism of the role of digitalization on green transformation in terms of both green entrepreneurial orientation and green innovation, which not only helps to gain insight into the theoretical explanation of the relationship between digitalization on innovation and entrepreneurship but also provides a theoretical basis for the study of the transmission of digitalization to green transformation behavior and enriches the theoretical understanding of the role of digital transformation.#br#
  • Regional Scientific Development
    He Wei,Dong Ying,Lyu Jingwen
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(17): 22-31. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023020266
    It is crucial to build an ecologically suitable regional innovation ecosystem against the imbalanced spatial pattern and uncoordinated development of regional innovation in China.#br#Gathering global innovation elements to construct an efficient self-organizing evolution innovation ecosystem has become an important way for regional innovation development. In recent years, with the rapid development of the digital economy, the wide application of digital technology has accelerated the reconstruction of regional and global economic patterns. Regional digital transformation driven by new-generation information technology such as big data and cloud computing has created an innovation ecosystem in the new era of the digital economy. The success of digital transformation is the key to the vigorous development of the digital economy and an important support for the stable and coordinated development of regional innovation ecosystems. However, the development of regional innovation ecosystems and innovation activities still faces multi-dimensional challenges,such as data collection, technology integration, talent supply, research and development costs, and data security. The impact mechanism of digital transformation on regional innovation ecosystem niche fitness is not clear, and it is of practical significance to explore the interaction between them. Meanwhile, industrial convergence has become a new trend of modern industrial development in digital transformation; as an important driving force for the growth of traditional industries and a new economic growth point, it plays a key role in promoting the formation and evolution of regional innovation ecosystems. In this process, the institutional environment plays an important role in ensuring and supporting regional innovation.#br#Drawing on the panel data of 30 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government) in China, excluding Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan,and Tibet, from 2008 to 2021, this paper empirically analyzes the impact of digital transformation on regional innovation ecosystem niche fitness and brings industrial convergence and institutional environment into the research model as mediating variables and moderating variables to analyze the interaction mechanism between them. The results show that, first of all, digital transformation has a significant positive impact on regional innovation ecosystem niche fitness; that is, the greater the degree of regional digital transformation, the more conducive to regional innovation, which is conducive to the development of the regional innovation ecosystem ecological niche in a more appropriate direction. Among them, the impact of digital transformation in the eastern region on regional innovation ecosystem niche fitness is significantly greater than that in the central and western regions. This is because the development level of the digital economy in the eastern region is relatively high, and thus it can better play the role of digital transformation in optimizing the regional innovation ecosystem's niche fitness. Secondly, industrial convergence plays a mediating role between digital transformation and regional innovation ecosystem niche fitness. Digital transformation can promote regional industrial convergence, and industrial convergence is conducive to the improvement of regional innovation ecosystem niche fitness. Finally, the institutional environment has a significant positive moderating effect on the relationship between digital transformation and regional innovation ecosystem ecological niche suitability. A good institutional environment can ensure the smooth promotion of digital transformation, which is more conducive to the enhancement of regional innovation ecosystem niche fitness through digital transformation.#br#Compared with existing studies, this paper empirically analyzes the relationship between digital transformation and regional innovation ecosystem niche fitness, and makes up for the lack of quantitative analysis in this field. Secondly, industrial convergence and institutional environment are included in the research framework of the relationship between digital transformation and regional innovation ecosystem niche fitness, and the mediating effect and regulatory effect of industrial convergence and institutional environment in this impact process are discussed, which enriches the existing theoretical research framework. Combined with the research conclusions, this paper puts forward policy suggestions on how to strengthen the digital transformation to enable the stable development of regional innovation ecosystem, providing reference for the coordinated innovation and high-quality development of different regions in China.#br#
  • Review
    Zhao Liyu,Zhu Baixue,Gao Dongqi
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(16): 150-160. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.YXW202305126
    High-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement are critical for national development, and they are dependent on the development of basic research and the acceleration of scientific and technological innovation. As the main force of basic research and scientific and technological innovation, universities play a vital role in the implementation of organized scientific research. However, at present, colleges and universities are essentially academic free bodies, mainly adopting the free exploration mode in basic research and scientific and technological innovation, coupled with the more traditional school-college two-level management model. There is still certain resistance in the process of reforming the science and technology management system and mechanisms, and it is difficult to form an interdisciplinary and systematic organized scientific research model, which greatly affects the optimal allocation of scientific and technological resources, the release of scientific research vitality, and the stimulation of the potential of scientific research personnel.#br#In order to serve the major strategic needs of national scientific and technological innovation, and promote organized scientific research in universities, this study follows the research trend of "theoretical research-empirical investigation-diagnosis of pulse problems-proposal of countermeasures". First, on the basis of fully investigating the scientific research organization model of Chinese universities, this paper deeply analyzes the difficulties that hinder organized scientific research in colleges and universities; then through the case analysis of universities with industry characteristics-K universities, and it focuses on multiple subjects such as governments, universities, enterprises, and scientific research institutes, and proposes countermeasures and suggestions to solve the difficulties of organized scientific research in colleges and universities are proposed from the aspects of mechanism optimization, top-level design, platform construction, project coordination, fund investment, achievement transformation, and personnel management, so as to optimize the allocation of scientific and technological resources, improve the quality of scientific research output, and lay an important foundation for China to achieve scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement.#br#Taking the organized scientific research management of "double first-class" science and engineering universities as the research object, this study centers around the organized scientific research management of basic research, and takes "blocking points and difficulties in organized scientific research operation" and "cases of efficient operation of organized scientific research" as the starting point. Through systematic investigation and interviews with 31 scientific researchers, this paper summarizes the deep-seated "pain points" and "blocking points" that need to be solved in the current operation and management of organized scientific research in Chinese universities. From the perspective of self-organization and other organizations, it is essential to strengthen the efficient operation and performance improvement of organized scientific research, and carry out longitudinal tracking around how to increase the major practical needs of key core technologies in the context of scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, so as to establish and improve the countermeasures for the efficient operation of organized scientific research in Chinese universities.#br#Given the importance and urgency of organized scientific research in Chinese universities, this paper starts from the four aspects and major problem orientation and takes the difficulties and blockages of the organized scientific research operation of universities as the research object.By clarifying the shackles that restrict the scientific and technological innovation system and mechanism of universities, this paper enriches the countermeasure research of the efficient operation of organized scientific research, and realizes the organic combination of organized scientific research management level and innovation performance of Chinese universities. Different from previous literature, this paper analyzes the practical experience of universities with industry characteristics from a unique perspective to effectively implement organized scientific research to solve difficulties and blockages for Chinese universities, and gives full play to the role of colleges and universities in scientific and technological innovation, basic research, and realizing scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement. The research results also have guiding significance for the reform of science and technology management system and mechanism in Chinese colleges and universities and the cultivation of high-quality talents.#br#
  • New Quality Productive Forces Column
    Yuan Ye,Cao Qian,Yin Ximing,Chen Jin
    Science & Technology Progress and Policy. 2024, 41(20): 32-44. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.L2024XZ423
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    New quality productive forces are the inherent requirement and important focus for promoting high-quality economic and social development, and they put forward new requirements to construct a new model and new mechanism for the in-depth integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation.At present, the complexity of global science and technology innovation is getting higher and higher, and the competition system has shifted from single-point technology in the past to the competition of technological ecosystem, from the competition of application technology to the competition of basic research, and the cross-fertilization and convergence and integration between science and technology are accelerating the evolution.At the same time, a new round of industrial change led by digital science and technology has reached the "technological singularity" of application transformation, and frontier technologies such as general artificial intelligence, gene editing, brain-like science and technology, and quantum information are gradually moving towards the critical "window period" of technological life.Therefore, major scientific and technological research and breakthroughs in original technologies increasingly require in-depth cooperation, open synergy and cross-fertilization among multiple disciplines and multiple innovation subjects.How to strengthen the status of enterprises as the main body of scientific and technological innovation and play the role of innovation consortium as a "new quality carrier" has become an important issue to promote the in-depth integration of industry, academia and research, accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into real productivity, and develop the new quality of productive forces.
    On the basis of the typical practice cases of innovation consortiumempowering new quality productive forces, this paper follows the ground theory to critically combs related classical theoretical literature, process data, and code the collected textual information step by step, mainly including open coding, main axial coding and selective coding, and refines the sub-category, main category and core category in order to identify the theoretical mechanism of the innovation consortium that empowers new quality productive forces.Against the backdrop of national "four oriented" major needs, the theoretical mechanism and practical path of innovation consortiumempowering new quality productivity are analyzed in depth from the "strategy-led + market-led + context-driven" perspective.
    This study proposes a three-dimensional "strategy-led-market-oriented-context-driven" framework for innovation consortiumto empower new productive forces.Using the cases of Xiaomi, Huawei, and Baidu, it further analyzes the main practical paths for innovation consortiumto empower new productive forces, including (1) strengthening basic research and original technology curation to accelerate the cultivation of pioneering capabilities; (2) building high-energy innovation consortiums to accelerate the breakthrough of key core technologies; (3) accelerating the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into real-life productive forces according to diversified contexts; (4) strengthening the four-chain integration and empowerment to build a modernized industrial system; and (5) integrating "active government" and "effective market" to enhance the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system.
    By revealing the theoretical mechanism and practical path of innovation consortium to empower new quality productive forces, this study provides an important theoretical basis and practical inspiration for the state and regions to efficiently coordinate and lay out industrial innovation consortium, promote industrial innovation through scientific and technological innovation, accelerate the cultivation and development of new quality productive forces.Firstly, major scientific and technological research should be carried out through innovation consortium to enhance the technological support capacity of industrial innovation and development.Secondly, innovation consortium should be utilized to promote the integration of industry, academia and research, and accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into real productive forces.Third, innovation consortium should be used to empower the industrial chain and innovation chain, and boost the construction of modernized industrial system.
  • Case Study
    Wang Jinfu,Li Tingting,Zhang Yingying
    Science & Technology Progress and Policy. 2024, 41(21): 151-160. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.YXG202305164
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    Enhancing the resilience and security levels of industrial and supply chains is critical for new developmental strategies. It also represents a crucial strategic choice for a nation's medium-to-long-term economic and social development. Moreover, it serves as an essential cornerstone in building a manufacturing powerhouse. A comprehensive, large-scale, and competitive industrial system has been fundamentally established in China, wherein the overall security and resilience of the industrial chains are being consistently fortified. However, the current global socio-political and economic landscape is fraught with complexities and uncertainties, exposing industrial chains to external risks such as disruptions and decouplings. Internally, these chains suffer from deficiencies like inadequate foundational innovative capabilities and a low position in the global value chain. Therefore, exploring avenues for augmenting industrial chain resilience is paramount for realizing the strategic objectives of high-quality development. Leading firms, acting as the 'architects' in constructing and evolving the entire industrial ecosystem, play a pivotal role in guiding industrial objectives and integrating relationships between upstream and downstream stakeholders. These firms can spearhead concerted efforts in critical cross-cutting technologies within the chain and facilitate the flow and sharing of innovative resources among entities within the chain. Hence, it is instrumental in enhancing industrial chain resilience by fully leveraging the ecological leadership of leading firms.
    Existing literature has delved into the roles of leading firms and industrial chain resilience. However, it lacks a nuanced and differentiated analysis of the ecological leadership dimensions exerted by leading firms. Additionally, scant research has been conducted from a micro-enterprise perspective to examine the unique mechanisms through which leading firms, as dominant actors in the industrial ecosystem, contribute to enhancing industrial chain resilience. To bridge this gap, the present study employs grounded theory methodologies and conducts case studies comparing BYD and the Chinese new energy automotive industrial chain to investigate the capability dimensions of ecological leadership by leading firms and the processes by which they enhance industrial chain resilience.
    The findings reveal that (1) in their development, leading firms progressively establish ecological leadership capabilities that enhance the resilience of industrial chains. These capabilities are categorized into three dimensions: technological innovation leadership, industrial collaboration and integration, and digital transformation empowerment. Specifically, technological innovation leadership is manifested through capabilities in technological innovation and leading innovation. Industrial collaboration and integration are demonstrated through resource integration and relationship coordination capabilities. Digital transformation empowerment is embodied in digital concept empowerment, digital resource empowerment, and digital structure empowerment. (2) The ecological leadership exerted by leading firms enhances the resilience of industrial chains through three distinct pathways: breakthroughs in key technologies, coordinated industrial linkages, and digital transformation of the industrial chain. Firstly, relying on their capabilities in technological innovation, the leading firms disseminate technology, knowledge, and information to firms within the chain. Then, through autonomous innovation and open, collaborative innovation with intra-chain firms, significant advancements in key technologies are achieved, thereby filling the gaps in weak technological links and considerably bolstering the resilience of critical elements within the industrial chain. Secondly, on the basis of their capabilities in industrial collaboration and integration, leading firms collaborate with large, medium, and small enterprises, as well as upstream and downstream entities, facilitating the development of a stable system for coordinated industrial linkages. This enables prompt adjustments to be made, thereby maintaining stability when disruptions impact the industrial chain. Thirdly, anchored by their capabilities in digital transformation empowerment, leading firms realize comprehensive digital transformation in R&D, production, and product intelligence, markedly enhancing product quality, user experience and competitive advantage. Concurrently, this drives the acceleration of digital transformation among smaller firms within the chain, thereby promoting an ascendancy in the value of the industrial chain and augmenting its efficiency and resilience.
    This study, while clarifying the specific dimensions encompassed by the ecological leadership of lead firms, also provides an in-depth and expanded analysis of the essence, manifestation, and functionality of each dimension. From a micro-enterprise perspective, the study unveils specific pathways for augmenting the resilience of industrial chains, enriching the viewpoints in existing resilience studies, and extending the scope of research on the resilience of individual industrial chains to the new energy automotive industrial chain.
  • New Quality Productive Forces Column
    Hu Haichen,Zhao Ruitong,Yang Meng,Lin Qiaohua
    Science & Technology Progress and Policy. 2024, 41(22): 37-47. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2024050763
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    Promoting the sound and fast development of new quality productive forces is a crucial step for China to respond to the new challenges of the global science and technology revolution and industrial transformation in the new era and achieve high-quality economic development. In the context of the digital era, the infiltration of digital technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and blockchain into the real economy has given rise to new models and industries such as smart manufacturing and digital agriculture, and changed the way traditional industries produce and operate. The integration of digital economy and real economy has become an important systemic base and strategic driving force for the development of new quality productive forces. However, infrastructure bottlenecks and uneven regional development limit the role of digital-physical integration in promoting the development of new quality productive forces. How to further promote the integration of digital economy with real economy, with a focus on developing new quality productive forces, is a key question that must be addressed at present.
    Existing research has addressed the role of economic activities generated in the process of digital-physical integration in promoting new quality productive forces, but it has not yet clarified how digital-physical integration can better form new quality productive forces. In fact, no single factor can adequately elucidate the intricate dynamics propelling the advancement of new quality productivity; thus, a broader perspective is essential for a more holistic understanding. While a one-size-fits-all approach is insufficient for guiding regions in selecting development drivers that align with their unique circumstances, necessitating further investigation into diverse pathways tailored to specific realities. Additionally, empirical research that systematically examines the evolution of data-physical integration and its qualitative influence on new quality productivity remains scarce.
    Considering the complex interactive effects of the elements of digital-physical integration, this paper, based on the view of complex systems, constructs an analysis framework of "digital foundation-digital industry-digital finance-industrial structure-industrial agglomeration-industrial chain modernization" for digital-physical integration. It uses the dynamic qualitative comparative analysis method to analyze and reveal the relationship between the path evolution of digital-physical integration and the emergence of new quality productive forces in the case of 30 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities across China from 2013 to 2022.
    The research results show that (1) neither the digital economy nor the real economy possesses a single, indispensable condition for fostering high new quality productive forces. (2) In the aggregated configuration analysis, there are mainly three constituting pathways, namely, digital finance empowerment type, full-chain digital upgrade type, and high-tech industry agglomeration type. (3) A comparison of the configuration results indicates that a robust digital foundation and a thriving digital industry are pivotal in catalyzing new quality productive forces during digital-physical integration, whereas digital finance and industrial agglomeration exhibit a substitutable relationship. (4) The inter-group analysis shows that the aggregated configuration has a temporal universality, while the formation of new quality productive forces has undergone an evolutionary process from high-tech industry agglomeration-oriented to digital finance empowerment-oriented and further differentiation. (5) The intra-group analysis indicates that the formation of new quality productive forces requires tailored development, and the agglomeration-oriented configuration of high-tech industries is suitable for areas where the industrial chain is not yet fully developed, while areas with better digital finance development are more poised to cultivate new quality productive forces.
    This paper establishes an analytical framework of "digital economy-real economy" linkage configuration for the emergence of new-quality productive forces, revealing the complex causal relationships behind the emergence of new-quality productive forces. It analyzes the development of new-quality productive forces, which has undergone a transformation from the regulation of a materialized economic system to the regulation of a virtualized economic system. The paper has developed the perspective of complex systems regarding the creation of new technologies.Furthermore, it offers tailored recommendations for enhancing new-quality productive forces, tailored to local contexts, such as bolstering the construction of digital infrastructure and the digital industry, encouraging and supporting the development of digital finance, and accelerating the industrial chain's modernization.
  • Digital Innovation Ecosystems
    Tian Qingfeng,Shen Weikang,Li Yao
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(16): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.YX202304008
    It is the source of the regional innovation power of digital industrialization by building a regional digital innovation ecosystem that can provide efficient organization and resource security for regional digital innovation and is the key support for realizing the high-quality development of digital China.However, at this stage, China is facing increased external environmental risks.How to promote the development of regional digital innovation ecosystems and improve the level of internal digital innovation has become an urgent problem.#br#Most studies have been done to analyze digital innovation from a qualitative perspective, and analyses from a dynamic perspective with comprehensiveness of indicators are rare.Moreover, there is no study to explore the digital innovation ecosystem at the regional level, combined with symbiotic theory.There is a lack of multidimensional integrated indicators to analyze the evolution of digital innovation ecosystems.Given the above research insufficiencies, this paper first analyzes the concept connotation of regional digital innovation ecosystem based on symbiotic theory.Combining the theory of technological progress to explore the evolutionary mechanism of the regional digital innovation ecosystem, the study investigates evolutionary processes and impediments by means of symbiosis, symbiotic evolution momentum, Dagum-Gini coefficient and decomposition method, Markov chain algorithm, and impediment factor diagnostic analysis model.#br#The results show that (1) regional symbiosis in the provinces of China shows an upward trend, but there are significant regional differences.The possible reason for this feature is that the regional digital innovation ecosystem is more stringent than the traditional regional innovation ecosystem.With insufficient ability of enterprise distribution and period consciousness decision-making, financial support is insufficient in areas of slow development.(2) Regional digital innovation ecosystem symbiotic evolution presents an overall benign development trend, but there are also large regional differences, in which the fluctuations of the total differences in the evolutionary momentum of interregional symbiosis decrease.Intraregional and interregional differences present the distribution patterns of "East > West > Central" and "East-West > East-Central > Middle-West",respectively.Differences in evolutionary momentum between regions are the main source, and the possible reasons for this feature are that evolutionary processes can significantly improve efficiency only in a few developed regions; a more sound regional industrial chain will drive the upstream and downstream supply chain to realize digital collaborative innovation; and the migration of digital technologies is evident in developed regions.(3) Evolutionary momentum trajectories shift from initial to intermediate to medium to high and advanced levels.The possible reason for this feature is that the evolution of regional digital innovation ecosystems is highly correlated with mature markets that can provide adequate consumer products and services, as well as real-time feedback for supply structure optimization upgrades.(4) The average barrier of the guideline layer is aligned as follows: regional symbiotic matrix > regional symbiotic unit > regional symbiotic network >regional symbiotic platform > regional symbiotic environment.The impediments to digital technology development in the indicator layer are 37.47%, and it is the foundation of regional digital innovation ecosystem.#br#In view of the above phenomena and problems, this paper proposes to improve the digital innovation ecological environment based on the development level of different regions, promote the flow of digital symbiotic elements to regions with slower development through government "drainage", and strengthen the symbiotic matrix of the digital innovation ecosystem.This paper proposes the concept connotation of regional digital innovation ecosystem and explores its evolutionary mechanism, which enriches the theory of regional digital innovation ecosystem to some extent.In addition, it provides more adequate data validation, and relevant research results can provide a certain reference basis for enterprises.Finally, this paper makes some theoretical explanations on the characteristics of related phenomena and provides some reference for government decision-making, and a certain reference basis for enterprises.Finally, this paper makes some theoretical explanations on the characteristics of related phenomena and provides some reference for government decision-making.#br#
  • New Quality Productive Forces Column
    Xu Hongdan, Wang Jiuhe
    Science & Technology Progress and Policy. 2025, 42(7): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.L2024XZ199
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    Elevating the level of intelligence is a pivotal measure for enterprises to expedite the formation of new quality productive forces. As a new generation of digital technology, artificial intelligence has realized subversive innovation in production methods, production processes and models, accelerated the transformation of production factors to production capacity, and provided new momentum for developing new quality productivity. However, most existing research on artificial intelligence focuses on the macro level. More literature needs to be examining how artificial intelligence technology empowers the development of enterprises' new quality productive forces.
    Therefore, this paper delves into artificial intelligence's empowerment path for enterprises' new quality productive forces. This study focuses on A-share listed companies from 2013 to 2022 to explore the impact of artificial intelligence on the new quality of productive forces within enterprises and the mechanisms that facilitate this influence. Drawing on the theoretical insights, it develops a regression model to assess the effects of AI and further examines the mechanisms through three key lenses: technology empowerment, efficiency empowerment, and information empowerment. To ensure the robustness of the findings, the study performs a series of rigorous checks. These include substituting variable indicators, applying the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) technique, conducting Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS) regression analysis, and employing a quasi-experimental design centered on the smart transformation of pivotal industries. The results consistently demonstrate the robustness and reliability of our conclusions. Lastly, the empowering effect of artificial intelligence on new quality productive forces can significantly differ because of the distinct internal characteristics and external environment of enterprises. Consequently, the study conducts a heterogeneity analysis of the main effects across three core dimensions of enterprise-level,industry-level,and regional differences.
    The study finds that artificial intelligence significantly enhances the development of enterprises' new quality productive forces. Mechanism analysis further reveals that this enhancement is achieved by strengthening digital innovation capabilities, improving the efficiency of supply chain, and mitigating the information asymmetry. Heterogeneity analysis demonstrates that there exist notable disparities in the enabling effects of artificial intelligence on new quality productive forces among different types of enterprises. Specifically, state-owned enterprises, labor-intensive enterprises, those situated in high-tech industries, and those located in regions with substantial fiscal support all exhibit more prominent improvements in their quality new productive forces, being empowered by artificial intelligence. This paper enhances the comprehension of the role of artificial intelligence in the production process at the micro-enterprise level, thereby providing valuable insights for promoting the efficient development of enterprises' new quality productive forces.
    The innovations of this paper lie in the following three aspects: Firstly, this paper studies the impact of artificial intelligence level on enterprise development in micro-enterprises. Existing research on artificial intelligence primarily focuses on macro-level effects, such as its influence on regions, industries, and labor markets, with relatively scarce studies at the micro-enterprise level. Furthermore, previous works often measured the artificial intelligence level of enterprises using industrial robot penetration rates, whereas this paper employs text analysis and machine learning methods to construct an artificial intelligence index for enterprises. Secondly, this paper enriches the research on new quality productive forces in enterprises. As a newly proposed concept, the new quality productive forces have predominantly been studied qualitatively, exploring its connotations, characteristics, and formation logic. By leveraging data from listed companies, this paper empirically analyzes the influence of artificial intelligence technology on enterprises' new quality productive forces. Thirdly, this paper provides theoretical support for promoting the enhancement and development of enterprises' new quality productive forces. This paper delves into the mechanisms through which artificial intelligence empowers new quality productive forces from the perspectives of technology, efficiency, and information. The heterogeneous effect on the main effect is further discussed in relation to the differences at enterprise ,industry and regional levels. It offers valuable insights for upgrading enterprises' new quality productive forces.
  • Enterprise Innovation Management
    Wen Xingqi,Sun Kaixin,Li Shiyao
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(15): 55-64. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.H202307016
    Innovation is an important strategic tool for enterprises to gain competitive advantages in intense market competition. With the rise of open innovation and open enterprises, industry-university-research collaboration has become an effective means for enterprises to acquire external innovation resources and thereby establish competitive advantages. Therefore, exploring the relationship between industry-university-research institution collaboration and enterprise innovation performance is of great significance for both academia and specific business practices. This study aims to explore the correlation between industry-university-research collaboration and enterprise innovation performance, as well as the mechanisms between the two, with a focus on the mediating effect of knowledge absorptive capacity and the moderating effects of executives' academic background and government innovation subsidies on this relationship.#br#To achieve this goal, the research methodology involves a comprehensive review of existing literature in the field, followed by an empirical analysis of all of China's A-share listed companies from 2010 to 2021. Drawing on transaction cost theory, resource-based theory, and upper echelon theory, this study not only explores the direct impact of industry-university-research collaboration on enterprise innovation performance, but also investigates the indirect impact mechanism of industry-university-research collaboration on enterprise innovation performance from the perspective of knowledge absorptive capacity. Additionally, two different levels of moderating variables, namely the academic background of senior executives and government innovation subsidies, are incorporated into the research framework. In particular, the variable of industry-university-research collaboration is divided into two dimensions of collaboration breadth and collaboration depth in the empirical processes, and regression analysis is conducted separately for each dimension.#br#It is found that, firstly, there is a significant positive correlation between industry-university-research collaboration and enterprise innovation performance. This suggests that under certain conditions, an increase in the breadth or depth of industry-university-research collaboration leads to an improvement in enterprise innovation performance. Secondly, the academic background of executives can positively moderate the positive impact of industry-university-research collaboration on enterprise innovation performance. This implies that an increase in the proportion of executives with an academic background strengthens the promoting effect of industry-university-research collaboration on enterprise innovation performance. Additionally, the study confirms that government innovation subsidies can also positively moderate the positive correlation between industry-university-research collaboration and enterprise innovation performance, and an increase in government innovation subsidies enhances the promoting effect of industry-university-research collaboration on enterprise innovation performance. Furthermore, after conducting regression analysis on the model, the study also performed robustness tests and heterogeneity analysis. In particular, by using the median of enterprise innovation performance as a threshold, heterogeneous analysis is conducted on two sub-samples. The final test results present significant differences, indicating that innovation performance is related to factors such as the level of independent R&D and resource advantages, for they can affect enterprises' willingness and ability to participate in industry-university-research practices.#br#The above analysis reveals that industry-university-research collaboration plays a crucial role in driving enterprise innovation performance. By engaging in industry-university-research collaboration practices, enterprises are able to conduct innovation activities at lower costs and risks, and moreover, they can leverage the technological advantages of universities and research institutes for research and development. Simultaneously, through the process of industry-university-research collaboration, enterprises can benefit from knowledge spillover from universities and research institutes, expand their knowledge breadth, enhance their research and development capabilities, and improve their innovation performance. Furthermore, the study suggests that by improving their own knowledge absorption capacity, enterprises' participation in industry-university-research collaboration can enhance their sensitivity to environmental changes and independent innovation ability to improve innovation performance. Besides,it also highlights the significant impact of executives' academic backgrounds and government innovation subsidies on moderating this relationship. The conclusions can serve as reference for enterprises seeking to enhance their innovation performance through industry-university-research collaboration.#br#
  • Innovation Ecosystems Column
    Li Yuhua,Zhang Yunfei
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(15): 138-148. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.YX202304005
    Innovation is the first driving force leading high-quality development. As a strategic pioneer industry of the national economy, the high-tech industry is the most active field of innovation. However, against the backdrop of high-quality development, China's high-tech industry is suffering from low innovation quality. In the critical period from quantitative accumulation to qualitative upgrading, how to realize the quality improvement of high-tech industry innovation is a realistic problem that needs to be solved urgently. The improvement of innovation quality in high-tech industries is a dynamic evolution process of a complex system, and it is affected by the synergistic influence of interdependent factors at multiple levels. At the same time, the improvement of innovation quality in high-tech industries reflects the degree of adaptability of innovation to the development of enterprises, industries and regions, which is in line with the concept of? innovation ecosystem. In view of this, it is necessary to incorporate the innovation ecosystem into the overall perspective to reveal the complex causal mechanism of innovation quality improvement in high-tech industries, and answer the following questions: (1) What are the key factors influencing the innovation quality of high-tech industries from the perspective of the innovation ecosystem? (2) Do individual innovation ecosystem elements constitute the necessary conditions for the improvement of the innovation quality of high-tech industries?Furthermore, what is the magnitude of their impact on this enhancement? (3) What kind of innovation ecosystem pathways can produce high innovation quality as well as non-high innovation quality?#br#Therefore, following the innovation ecosystem theory, this study extracts the key factors affecting the innovation quality improvement of high-tech industry from three levels: innovation subject, innovation resources and innovation environment, and then constructs an integrated analysis framework for the innovation quality improvement of high-tech industry by combining the group state perspective. On this basis, this study applies the necessary condition analysis (NCA) and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) methods to analyze the multiple paths of innovation quality improvement in high-tech industries and their inner mechanisms by using 31 provinces and cities with high-tech industries as case samples.#br#The following are the results of this study. (1) Core subject input, R&D subject input, innovation manpower input, technology innovation level and regional marketization level are not necessary conditions for innovation quality improvement in high-tech industries, and they can not ensure innovation quality improvement in high-tech industries alone. (2) There are three high innovation quality paths, which are summarized as two modes of multi-linkage and two-wheel drive. At the same time, there are two non-high innovation quality paths,i.e., the "innovation subject—innovation resource—innovation environment" deficiency type and "innovation resource—innovation environment" deficiency type. Moreover, the driving mechanisms of high-tech industries to achieve high-quality innovation and non-high quality innovation are somewhat different and have causal asymmetry. (3) Under the condition of specific objective endowment , high-tech industries can promote industrial technological innovation by increasing the investment in R&D subjects and can also improve the level of technological innovation to make up for the lack of investment in R&D subjects, so as to promote the quality of innovation in high-tech industries in a "different way".#br#On the basis of the above research conclusions, this study further puts forward some countermeasure suggestions to improve the innovation quality of high-tech industries at the three levels of innovation subject, innovation resources and innovation environment. Compared with previous studies, this study explores the path of innovation quality improvement in high-tech industries from the perspective of innovation ecology, comprehensively analyzes the key factors of innovation subjects, innovation resources and innovation environment that affect innovation quality improvement in high-tech industries, and deeply analyzes the logic behind the realization of high-quality innovation and non-high-quality innovation in high-tech industries in different regions. The research findings not only enrich the research scope of innovation ecosystem theory, but also provide practical insights for different regions to make strategies to improve innovation quality for high-tech industries according to local conditions.#br#
  • Data Science and Innovation Column
    Li Xiaomei,Liu Shanshan
    Science & Technology Progress and Policy. 2025, 42(5): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.H202308056
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    Along with the Sino-U.S. trade dispute , the complex geopolitical situation and other variable factors, supply chain friction has become the norm. The risks associated with the flow of capital, information, and logistics in the supply chain have dramatically increased, making it urgent to improve the chain's resilience in order to mitigate disruption risk and maintain the chain's security and stability. At this stage, the importance of data elements in empowering supply chain governance is becoming more and more prominent, and the scale of data assets owned and the ability to transform them into productivity have become important factors in gaining new competitive advantages. From the perspective of supply chain network characteristics, the penetration and application of data elements in the subject and structural elements of the supply chain have significantly revolutionized the operation mode of the supply chain, and become a key driving factor to enhance risk-taking and ensure the continuity of supply and demand.
    This study investigates the enabling mechanisms of data elements on the subject and the structural resilience of the supply chain in order to reveal the supply chain resilience enhancement paths in a more thorough and detailed manner. As a result, given the network characteristics of the supply chain, the subject element and structural element may show different resilience mechanisms against risks. By employing the OLS regression model, the study collects data from Chinese listed companies between 2015 and 2022 and uses text analysis to create indicators that show the application level of enterprise data elements. It then uses supply chain subject resilience and structural resilience to characterize the overall resilience of the supply chain and empirically investigates the impact of data elements on resilience.
    The research results show that data elements can effectively enhance the level of enterprise risk-taking and the stability of supply-demand relationship, and the findings remain robust after a series of endogeneity and robustness tests, showing that data elements can effectively enhance both supply chain subject resilience and structural resilience. In addition, the application of data elements by enterprises can effectively enhance the innovation effect and the information effect, thus improving the innovation capability of enterprises and obtaining the information advantage to promote the resilience of the supply chain. At the same time, the enabling effect of data elements on supply chain resilience can be differentiated by the internal and external environments of enterprises, that is, the enabling effect is stronger when the enterprise is large, operates in a highly competitive industry, and is situated in an area with a poor supply chain operating environment and high marketization.
    Compared with the results of previous studies, this study expands the research perspective of supply chain resilience, constructs enterprise-level supply chain resilience measurement indexes from the perspective of network characteristics, and enriches the research scope of supply chain in the era of digital economy; and it further empirically examines the two indirect empowerment mechanisms of innovation effect and information effect, which provides a useful supplement to the research on the empowerment mechanism of data elements on supply chain resilience. Through the analysis of the research findings, this study proposes to accelerate the construction of data element marketization, further activate the potential of data elements in enhancing supply chain resilience, and formulate targeted data elements application solutions according to the differences in the internal and external environments of enterprises, which will help the government optimize the policies on data elements and supply chain and support the scientific decision-making of enterprises, and have certain theoretical significance for the implementation of the strategic plan of "focusing on enhancing the resilience and security of industrial chain and supply chain".
    Future research may integrate the two dimensions of supply chain entity resilience and relationship resilience into a comprehensive index for research, further combine the characteristics of the supply chain to reveal the mechanism path involving more data elements to empower supply chain resilience improvement, and the subsequent economic impacts of data elements empowering supply chain resilience improvement could be predicted.
  • Innovation in Science and Technology Management
    Chen Yixin,Zhang Ting,Ma Chen
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(15): 22-32. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023090336
    Adequate information acquisition is beneficial for firms to identify innovation projects, acquire innovation knowledge, and evaluate innovation value. A rich information environment is necessary for promoting corporate innovation performance. Previous studies have shown that, due to similar economic conditions and market environments, peer firms' information disclosure is an important channel for target firms to obtain decision-making information. Firms can conduct research to formulate financial decisions suitable for their own development according to the collected peers' annual report information. Therefore, peers' information disclosure has an economic spillover effect. Will the information disclosure of peer firms affect the target firm's innovation decisions by improving the information environment? The answer to this question can not only help advance the understanding of the spillover effects of information disclosure, but is also of great significance for building an information environment conducive to corporate innovation.#br#To this end, this paper studies whether peer firms' narrative innovation information disclosure affects target firms' innovation performance. It takes Chinese A-share listed companies from 2006 to 2022 as the sample, covering a total of 80 industries. The data on firms' patent applications and citation frequency in this study are from the CNRDS and WinGo databases, respectively. The annual report text of listed companies is from Juchao, an information disclosure website designated by the China Securities Regulatory Commission for listed companies, and the text corpus is preprocessed using WinGo data platform tools. Other data are from the CSMAR database. The study employs machine learning and textual analysis to construct the variables of narrative innovation information disclosure and finds that the increase in the level of peers' narrative innovation information disclosure significantly promotes the quantity and quality of target firms' innovation output. Specifically, for each increase in the level of peers' narrative innovation information disclosure by one standard deviation, the total number of patent applications by the target firm in the next period will increase by 0.197, and the number of patent citations will increase by 0.092, accounting for 8.9% and 11.65% of their respective averages.#br#This spillover effect is more pronounced when target firms' narrative innovation disclosure has more positive tones, higher levels of readability, and is more forward-looking. Mechanism tests show that expanding the access to innovation information of target firms and enhancing the governance effect on the opportunistic behavior of target firms' management are the underlying mechanisms. In further analysis, according to the matching between the level of innovation information and the real performance of corporate innovation, this paper finds that, compared with the disclosure style of “inconsistent words and deeds”, the peers' narrative innovation information disclosure style of “consistent words and deeds” can promote the innovation performance of target firms more significantly. Finally, peers' narrative innovation information disclosure significantly promotes the long-term operating performance of target firms by improving their innovation performance.#br#The main findings of this paper provide empirical evidence on the effectiveness of narrative innovation information disclosure from the perspective of peer firms, expanding the research perspective on the spillover effects of non-financial information disclosure. The following policy implications are presented. First, government should value the importance of innovation information disclosure and build an institutional environment that encourages listed companies to fully and truthfully disclose innovation information. The policy-making departments should further introduce relevant standards aimed at improving the readability and forward-looking nature of narrative innovation information in annual reports and avoiding low-quality information disclosure. Second, the listed companies should pay attention to the narrative innovation information in their peers' annual reports and improve their ability to distinguish innovation information. When dealing with peers' innovation information, the listed companies should make reference to peer firms' innovation practices, focus on the information that matches practices,and select innovation directions that meet the development needs of the industry. #br#
  • Enterprise Innovation Management
    Song Jiashan,Tu Hanyun,Zhao Ruizeng
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(14): 62-71. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023030240
    Enterprises are at the core of China's economic development since they represent the primary drivers of micro-innovation.Enhancing the innovation capabilities of enterprises is essential to promoting the strategy of strengthening the country with science and technology and empowering long-term sustainable economic development.As China's economy moves from high-speed growth to innovation-led, high-quality development, enterprises must achieve digital transformation to enhance innovation and development effectively.Therefore, it has become a crucial topic of discussion about how to embrace digital technology in stimulating innovation vitality and improving efficiency in the digital economy era.#br#While existing literature has recognized that digital transformation has positive effects on innovation, it has focused primarily on innovation quantity and quality without consideration of innovation efficiency.Digital transformation enables firms to upgrade their existing products and increase their innovation output.However, such upgrades have led to the filing of numerous duplicate, low-quality patents, lowering the overall quality of innovation.Thus, further exploration of the potential impact mechanisms between digital transformation and innovation efficiency is required.An imbalance in financial asset allocation may adversely affect digital transformation and innovation,but few studies have analyzed the behavioral effects of financial asset allocation on digital transformation and innovation, indicating the need for a systematic framework to clarify their impact mechanisms.#br#To further enrich the existing theoretical and empirical analysis framework, this study first clarifies the relationship between digital transformation and innovation efficiency.Next, the underlying mechanisms of financing constraints and corporate financialization are analyzed.The samples from the financial industry, insurance industry, and real estate industry are excluded, and 11 000 observation values were ultimately obtained after screening.This study employs the panel double fixed effect model, mediating model, moderated mediation model, and threshold effect model to analyze the direct effect and potential mechanism of the digital transformation of China's A-share listed companies on innovation efficiency from 2010 to 2021.#br#The following research conclusions are obtained.First, digital transformation can significantly enhance firms' innovation capability, and this conclusion still holds after a series of robustness tests and endogeneity tests.Second, financing constraints play a significant mediating role in the path of digital transformation for enterprises, affecting innovation efficiency.The digital transformation of enterprises can break the information barriers and broaden the innovation financing channels, improving enterprises' innovation efficiency by alleviating their financing constraints.Third, among the direct effects of digital transformation-driven innovation, the increase in financial asset allocation by firms for capital arbitrage motives has a "crowding-out effect" on corporate innovation.Fourth, on the mediating path of financing constraints, enterprises can play the role of "reservoir" of financial assets by allocating financial assets based on the motivation of capital reserves.#br#The potential contributions of this paper are as follows.First, this study empirically tests the contribution of digital transformation to the efficiency of corporate innovation and enriches the empirical research on digital transformation and corporate innovation efficiency.Second, this study tests the transmission mechanism of financing constraints in the relationship between digital transformation and corporate innovation and provides new empirical evidence for firms to explore the path of digital transformation-driven innovation.Third, from the perspective of firms' allocation of financial assets, it re-examines the relationship between digital transformation and innovation efficiency and discovers that the financialization of firms has a moderating mechanism in the process of digital transformation-driven innovation as well as its boundary conditions.#br#Finally, this study puts forward some targeted suggestions based on the empirical results.Government departments should focus on creating a sound ecology of digital-driven innovation.Financial institutions should establish and improve the financial market system to provide financial support for enterprises' technological innovation.Entity enterprises need to accelerate digital transformation at the same time, and they should treat the allocation of financial assets in an objective and dialectical manner,and reasonably plan the investment of financial assets.#br#
  • Sci-tech Talent Cultivation
    Li Yanping,Liao Xin,Yang Yingyao
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(18): 119-128. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2024050219
    The development and application of emerging information technologies, such as artificial intelligence, has promoted the digital and intelligent transformation of enterprises and changed the way people work. This has also sparked a wave of hybrid work in China. Innovative working modes may affect employee innovation outcomes. Hybrid work combines technology, platforms, and innovation capabilities, which impacts employees' innovative performance, yet the impact of hybrid work on employee innovation performance has not been fully explored. Existing research has overlooked the dual effects of hybrid work on innovation performance. On one hand, hybrid work allows employees more time for personal pursuits, family, friends, and hobbies, achieving a win-win situation for both employees and organizations. This promotes better work-family balance, thereby enhancing employee innovative performance. On the other hand, the workplace presence is a unique contextual feature of hybrid work. The use of communication technologies and other media in hybrid work can reduce employees′ workplace presence, potentially negatively affecting their innovation outcomes. Additionally, employees′ cognitive evaluations play an important moderating role in how hybrid work impacts innovative performance.#br#Thus, this paper integrates the stimulus-organism-response (SOR) theory and social presence theory, focusing on the characteristics of hybrid work. These characteristics include the impact of information technology on the relationship between family and work, as well as how the use of information technology changes the workplace presence. By introducing work-family balance and workplace presence, the study delves into their mediating roles between hybrid work and innovative performance. Additionally, it explains the boundary roles of challenge appraisal and hindrance appraisal.#br#This study conducted a questionnaire survey among employees with hybrid work experience in various regions, including Central China (Hubei, Anhui), Northwest China (Ningxia), South China (Guangdong), and East China (Shanghai). Over three phases, a total of 432 valid responses were collected. The scales used in the questionnaire are adapted from established scales both domestically and internationally. Data analysis was performed using the Bootstrap method by the Mplus 8.3. The results indicate that hybrid work enhances employees' innovative performance through the mediating role of work-family balance, with challenge appraisal playing a positive moderating role. Conversely, hybrid work reduces employees' innovation performance through the mediating role of workplace presence, with hindrance appraisal playing a negative moderating role.#br#Following the SOR theory and the social presence theory, this study investigates the double-edged sword effect of hybrid work on employees' innovation performance, and examines the moderating roles of challenge appraisal and hindrance appraisal. The main contributions are threefold. First of all, it constructs a research model to verify the double-edged sword effect of hybrid work on employees' innovation performance, breaking through the one-sidedness of previous studies on hybrid work performance. Secondly, from a research perspective, it studies employees' innovation performance in hybrid work based on SOR theory and social presence theory. By introducing workplace presence and work-family balance, it partially opens the "black box" of the impact mechanism of hybrid work on employees' innovation performance, expands the application of social presence theory in the field of human resource management, and opens new theoretical perspectives for subsequent research. Thirdly, in exploring boundary conditions, it introduces individual cognitive appraisal to study its role in the double-edged sword effect of hybrid work on innovation performance, providing a more comprehensive explanatory framework for understanding the role of individual cognitive factors in innovation performance.#br#Finally, this study proposes some effective management strategies and suggestions to improve employees' innovation performance in hybrid work environments. These include (1) preventing the negative impact of reduced workplace presence on innovation performance by emphasizing the key role of workplace presence in hybrid work and implementing measures to mitigate its reduction; (2) recognizing the positive impact of work-family balance on innovation performance by paying attention to the essential needs of employees for work-family balance in hybrid work and supporting these needs; and (3) clarifying employees' cognitive differences towards hybrid work by understanding and addressing the different perceptions and cognitive evaluations about hybrid work. These strategies aim to enhance the positive aspects of hybrid work while mitigating potential negative effects, thereby improving overall innovation performance among employees.#br#
  • Innovation in Science and Technology Management
    Liang Jianghai,Liu Shulei,Wu Ji,Yang Xiao
    Science & Technology Progress and Policy. 2024, 41(19): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023070754
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    Nowadays, major countries in the world have attached great importance and priority to promoting disruptive innovation which is of high investment, high risk and high return, and China urgently needs to establish a normalcy mechanism for discovering, selecting, and cultivating disruptive technology, focus on excavating and discovering a number of disruptive technology directions, improve the quality and supply efficiency of disruptive technology, and rapidly improve the national comprehensive powers. In order to accurately select and deploy technologies with disruptive potential, it is essential to master the regularity of disruptive technology development ;thus, this paper constructs an evaluation index system, and proposes a multi-data source fusion analysis framework, for studying the development and evolution of disruptive technologies.
    Academic papers and invention patents are important carriers of scientific and technological innovation, and government policies are important factors in promoting scientific and technological development. It is important way for studying the regularity and path of disruptive technology development to exploiting the latent data information in academic papers, patents, and the Natural Science Foundation, and establish the interactive relationship between these information and disruptive technology. This paper constructs an indicator system of seven dimensions to evaluate the development and evolution of disruptive technology, including the number growth rate of published papers, the citation growth rate of published papers, the cited growth rate of published papers, the number growth rate of filed patents, the citation growth rate of filed patents, the cited growth rate of filed patents, and the funding growth rate of Natural Science Foundation. Then, for each indicator, temporal variation characteristics are analyzed with the major historical events of the disruptive technology from a quantitative analysis perspective. Finally, the coefficient of variation method (CV) is used in fusion analytics of multi-type indicators, obtaining a fitting curve, and then the law of disruptive technology development is analyzed with major historical facts.
    GPS technology is a typical disruptive technology that experiences a relatively complete technology lifecycle, and it is going into the large-scale application stage. Therefore, this paper takes the GPS technology as an empirical case to research the law of disruptive technology development. According to the principles of authority and completeness, this paper collects data from the Web of Science Core Collection Database, the Patsnap Patent Database, the Natural Science Foundation Database of the U. S. , and open-source data on the internet. Then, these data are analyzed using the proposed method, such as extracting related indicator features from papers, patents, and natural science foundations, and conducting analysis on the temporal variation characteristics of the indicators with the relevant historical events.
    The case of GPS technology reveals that the development of disruptive technology requires several rounds of technical innovation breakthroughs, and these breakthroughs are achieved under the synergistic effects of military need, scientific theory, technology application, and the policy environment. Among these effects, military need and market demand are the direct driving forces for the formation and development of disruptive technologies. Basic theory is the source power for the formation and development of disruptive technologies. Technological innovation is the important driving force for the formation and development of disruptive technologies, and government policy is the catalyst for the formation and development of disruptive technologies.
    On the basis of the research results, this paper suggests that it is pivotal to strengthen research on the development and evolution of disruptive technology, utilize advanced scientific methods, technical tools, and expert experience to study, identify, and predict disruptive technologies, improve awareness, understanding, and insight of disruptive technology. Then it is essential to sustain funding on scientific frontier and interdisciplinary research, provide long-term and stable support for basic interdisciplinary research, promote the cross-integration of natural sciences and engineering fields, and keep obtaining the source force for the development of disruptive technology. Finally, it is need to construct a multi-stage intervention mechanism for disruptive technology. According to technological development and market status, it is necessary to input different degrees of policy intervention and resource investment at different technological stages to improve the efficiency of resource utilization.
  • Innovation in Science and Technology Management
    Zhang Dong,Xue Lan,Liang Zheng,Liu Xin
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(15): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023030311
    The level of scientific and technological achievement transformation in China is relatively low, and research shows that in recent years, relevant reforms have not effectively improved the efficiency of scientific and technological achievement transformation in state-owned institutions. The ownership reform of post-related scientific and technological achievements needs a pluralistic mechanism complex to deal with shackles in multiple fields of creation and application, such as the weakness of motivation for scientific researchers, the lack of rights for competent people to transfer, the fear of managers to dispose of assets, the deficiency of good achievements in the upstream, and the lack of conditions for downstream transformation. There is a lack of top-level design and coordination in the current legal system. On the one hand, it advocates empowerment, and on the other hand, there are still key obstacles restricting empowerment. Some provisions in intellectual property law, science and technology law, and state-owned asset management law conflict with one another, which have negative impacts on the empowerment and utilization of post-related scientific and technological achievements. There are undergone reforms in many regions with the aim to solve problems of all-factor empowerment on the supply side, management side, service side and application side. However, there is controversy over the legality of various exploratory methods such as mixed ownership and non-state-owned asset management, and thus there is an urgent need to establish a standardized model and explore systematic implementation methods.#br#According to the experiences of pilot reforms, this paper studies the inadequacies of current laws and regulations in adapting to realistic development and policy needs. It makes an analysis of the connotation and types of scientific and technological achievements, legal provisions of power and ownership, rights acquisition and asset management systems. Facing the whole chain from creation to transformation and application, this paper studies the ownership of achievements and the power required by different users and their incompatibilities, analyzes the root factors restricting innovation and transformation, coping mechanism and reform plan of power matching. It points out the reform focus of upstream suppliers, midstream management servers, and downstream application, and then proposes to improve the quality of front innovation, enhance the power and initiative of important subjects, provide multi-subject income-compatible option incentives, and take tolerant measures for disposal and income management so as to stimulate most subjects to play their roles.#br#Furthermore, after analyzing the disharmony between reform development and current regulations, the conflicts among different laws and policies, and the lack of a coordination system covering intellectual property law, science & technology law and asset management law in the field of ownership, this study proposes to consolidate the legal rights foundation of scientific & technological achievements and clarify the basis of ownership reform. In view of the practical obstacles such as dare not transfer, inability to transfer, unmotivated to transfer, insufficient innovation quality and mismatched market conditions, it puts forward countermeasures for strengthening the incentive of basic research, cultivating high-quality innovation, guiding flexible pricing of achievements, optimizing state-owned intangible asset management, matching and coordinating the rights, responsibilities, and interests.#br#The management of post-related scientific and technological achievements involves multiple legal departments, but due to scattered regulations and a lack of coordination, efficient management can be hindered by institutional functions. Hence, it is conducive to exploring the establishment of unified legislation for the management of post-related scientific and technological achievements. First and foremost, it is critical to eliminate blind spots and conflicts in the application of legal regulations for post-related inventions by improving the fundamental institutional unity of the ownership of post-related inventions in the Patent Law, the Law on Science and Technology Progress, and the Law on Promoting the Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements. Second, it is necessary to improve the collaborative mechanism for the ownership reform of scientific and technological achievements and establish a collaborative service system for departments such as science and technology education, intellectual property, and finance and tax auditing. Third, it is pivotal to establish scientific and reasonable regulations on the achievements of post-related science and technology to coordinate the legal environment and clarify institutional solutions for key issues in the reform so that the rights and powers of achievements can play long-term roles.#br#
  • Knowledge Science and Knowledge Engineering
    Shao Bing,Kuang Xianming,Wang Hui
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(14): 111-121. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023030519
    Theoretical researchers have regarded digital transformation as a holistic concept and studied its impact on technological innovation, neglecting the decomposability of digital transformation and the process nature of complex enterprise systems.Thus, the specific mechanisms by which the digital transformation promotes technological innovation await further analysis.Among them, digital knowledge management is the primary link in digital transformation.On the one hand, the main content of digital transformation includes organizational change, business processes, products and services, business models, etc.At the organizational level, digital transformation involves the transformation of key business operations, which in turn affect products and processes, causing changes in business models.On the other hand, digital transformation needs to be centered on digital knowledge management to achieve organizational structure flattening, flexibility, networking, and virtualization, thereby achieving organizational change.Therefore, enterprise digital knowledge management, as a determinant of organizational change, affects the business processes, products and services, and business model innovation of digital transformation.#br#The article proposes the concept of digital knowledge management, studies its impact on technological innovation in manufacturing enterprises, and analyzes its role mechanism from the perspective of dynamic capabilities.On the one hand, digital transformation is a holistic concept of enterprise digital transformation.Digital knowledge management is the primary link in digital transformation, as well as its foundation and logical starting point.On the other hand, the significant feature of knowledge management is informatization, and digital knowledge management bears intelligent and platform-based characteristics.In addition, dynamic capabilities are the theoretical basis for studying digital transformation.As the primary link in digital transformation, digital knowledge management promotes the formation of dynamic capabilities through digital technology in knowledge acquisition, integration, absorption, application and innovation, enhancing the technological innovation capabilities of enterprises.〖HJ*2/7〗#br#Taking the manufacturing enterprises listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share market from 2007 to 2021 as the sample, this article extracts the root keywords of digital knowledge management through literature, and then uses the information about digital knowledge management in the annual reports of listed companies to expand keywords with the help of machine learning algorithms, thereby constructing a proxy variable for digital knowledge management through the frequency of keyword occurrence.It is found that digital knowledge management has a significant positive impact on technological innovation in enterprises.After mitigating the endogeneity problem through instrumental variables, PSM, and Heckman two-stage model methods, the results are still significant.This impact is mainly through the absorption, adaptation, and innovation capabilities paths.#br#The conclusions of this study have specific reference value for the digital transformation practices of manufacturing companies.First, the foundation of digital transformation lies in digital knowledge management.Manufacturing companies can use digital technology to transform traditional knowledge management into digital knowledge management that is intelligent, platform-based, and can structure unstructured knowledge and make implicit knowledge explicit.This enhances their ability to acquire, integrate, absorb, apply, and innovate knowledge and promotes the level of technological innovation.Second, the companies should proactively build dynamic capabilities.By actively identifying, acquiring, applying, and transforming external market knowledge through digital knowledge management, companies can provide market information and knowledge feedback to the R&D department, enabling researchers to improve processes and designs based on customer needs and develop products that better meet customers' personalized and customized demands.To ensure the improvement of dynamic capabilities, companies should not only build a digital knowledge management system but also maintain strategic focus, concentrate advantageous resources to achieve strategic goals, especially in selecting a strategic path, i.e., choosing one of the service-oriented, digital, or digital service-oriented strategies.Additionally, in the context of manufacturing industry transformation and economic uncertainty, companies should carefully choose a diversified strategy.#br#In summary, this article reveals the positive impact of digital knowledge management on technological innovation in manufacturing companies and its mechanism.The research conclusions provide new ideas and methods for corporate digital transformation and contribute to the development of dynamic capability theory.In the future, more research can be conducted to explore digital knowledge management and its impact on different industries and countries.#br#
  • Regional Scientific Development
    Wang Haijun,He Zitong,Ma Xiaolin,Zhao Huiyan,Shu Chaohui
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(17): 32-43. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.YXW202305102
    At present, China's regional innovation development has evolved into an innovation ecosystem model. The regional innovation ecosystem is an open system characterized by multi-subjects, multilateral relations and multi-level structure. Under the background of digitalization, the regional innovation ecosystem relies on the connectivity and aggregation characteristics of digital technology to reshape and mutate the organizational structure and innovation mechanism of the ecosystem. In turn, digitalization triggers the iteration and restructuring of innovation elements and organizational paradigms in regional innovation ecosystems, as well as the upgrading of evolutionary paths. In the existing research, there is still an obvious gap in the exploratory research and practice of regional innovation ecosystems under digitization, and thus the existing research has failed to explore the evolution of regional innovation ecosystems' structure and mechanism from the perspective of digitization.#br#In view of this, in order to clarify the evolution process of the structure and mechanism of the regional innovation ecosystem against the backdrop of digital innovation, this paper analyzes the development practice of Zhongguancun Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone for more than 30 years, and forms a triangular validation by means of in-depth interviews, participatory observation, and other first-hand and second-hand data. By coding the data at three levels, 18 first-order concepts, 9 second-order themes and 3 aggregated constructs are formed for the analysis of the evolution process of the structure and mechanism of the regional innovation ecosystem under digitalization.#br#It is found that the evolution of the digital regional innovation ecosystem is based on the specialization of innovation subjects, diversification of innovation resources and sound innovation environment as a starting point, relying on digital technology and data elements to aggregate, connect, and integrate innovation subjects and external innovation resources, and ultimately realizing the value of co-creativity of the regional innovation ecosystem, forming the characteristics of "information-based industrial aggregation—networked industrial ecology—digital regional ecology", and ultimately presenting the process of the evolution of the organizational structure of "aggregated-networked-ecological". Moreover, contexts dominate the digital change of the ecosystem collaborative innovation management model, and the regional innovation ecosystem is interpreted in terms of the three contextual dimensions of the innovation subject, innovation resources, and innovation environment. Specifically, innovation subjects rely on digital technology for role change, while innovation resources between heterogeneous subjects realize integration and synergy under the evolution of the innovation environment. Finally, the mechanism evolution path of regional innovation ecosystem under digitalization is summarized as follows: (1) the adaptation mechanism evolves according to the path of "passive adaptation—active adaptation—leading adaptation" based on the adaptation of the needs of the innovation subject; (2) the interaction mechanism makes the interaction of innovation resources evolve according to the path of "resource aggregation—knowledge transfer—value co-creating"; (3) the symbiosis mechanism evolves the innovation elements according to the path of "parasitism—biased symbiosis—mutual benefit symbiosis".#br#In summary, this paper proposes the organization and evolution mechanism of the regional innovation ecosystem under digitalization, which provides useful reference for the digital construction of the regional innovation ecosystem. The regional innovation ecosystem relies on digital technology to connect and unite industrial chain innovation subjects, and improve the competitiveness of regional industries as a whole. Thus, it realizes the complementary advantages between innovation subjects and optimizes the interaction of innovation resources. There are still certain limitations to this study. First, this paper adopts the exploratory vertical single-case study method. Limited by the number of research objects, the universality of the research conclusions needs further discussion. Multiple case studies or cross-industry studies can be conducted in the future to further test the conclusions drawn from this study. Second, the exploration of specific management mechanisms is still limited, and it is necessary to analyze the functional principles of the mechanisms through quantitative means in the future. Finally, the Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park is taken as the main support for innovation elements in this study, with a focus on the interaction and collaboration of internal innovation elements in the system. However, there are still limitations in exploring the distribution and external innovation elements in the region, which await future research.#br#
  • Innovation in Science and Technology Management
    Ma Junfeng
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(15): 12-21. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023030608
    Behind the dynamic imbalance in regional higher education, there are issues of disorder and imbalance in the mobility of top talents among universities. The key to optimizing the allocation of higher education resources lies in ensuring the rationality of talent mobility. Therefore, it is crucial to analyze the underlying logic behind talent mobility and consider the possibility of talent agglomeration and balanced development in regional higher education. However, existing research often overlooks the spatial agglomeration effect of top talents and focuses solely on balanced development, lacking a convincing theoretical interpretation for the path mechanism of balanced development in regional higher education.#br#The study employs panel data from 192 universities during the period of 2016-2021 for empirical analysis. Firstly, through Global Moran's I and Local Moran's I tests in spatial econometrics analysis, the agglomeration effect of top talents in the selected sample institutions is identified in terms of academic vitality and research innovation level. Secondly, using the spatial information obtained from the spatial econometrics analysis, the study constructs a panel stochastic frontier model to estimate the agglomeration effect of top talents, which represents the influence on the academic vitality and research innovation level of universities. Finally, it constructs (absolute and conditional) β-convergence model with spatial effects to verify the spatial spillover effect and convergence process of the agglomeration of top talents in Chinese colleges and universities. This study abandons the geographical adjacency and geographical distance spatial weight matrix, highlights the spatial effects between universities according to the first law of geography, and sets the inverse distance spatial weight matrix as the core matrix for parameter estimation. On the basis of geographical distance, it fully measures the differences in faculty size and scientific research input among colleges and universities in space, constructs a nested space weight matrix for scientific research funds and a nested space weight matrix for faculty,respectively,so as to accurately depict the comprehensiveness and complexity of spatial effects and ensure the robustness of empirical results.#br#Through the theoretical analysis and empirical analysis, the main conclusions are drawn as follows. Firstly, the Global Moran's I test demonstrates a strong spatial clustering relationship in the scale of top talents between universities under three spatial weight matrices. However, the intensity of spatial effects varies significantly depending on the spatial weight matrices, indicating that the spatial agglomeration effect of top talents in regional higher education's imbalanced development process is influenced by geographical location and differences in educational conditions. Secondly, the Local Moran's I test reveals spatial heterogeneity in the agglomeration effect of top talents in the sample institutions within local regions, exhibiting a gradient pattern of "alliance between the tops", "supporting among the middles" and "isolation within the bottoms" respectively. Thirdly, the estimation results of the panel stochastic frontier model indicate that the spatial agglomeration effect of top talents in universities positively impacts the improvement of academic vitality and research innovation level in domain institutions. The influence is ranked as follows: "number of patent authorizations" (39.73%) > "number of highly cited papers" (27.36%) > "number of hot papers" (20.07%) > "number of national-level projects" (19.70%) > "research output scale" (18.48%) > "frequency of participation in high-level conferences at home and abroad" (14.51%) > "provincial-level and above scientific and technological awards" (11.59%). Lastly, the results of the β-convergence test with spatial effects demonstrate significant absolute and conditional β-convergence processes in the spatial agglomeration level of top talents in colleges and universities. This indicates that the spatial differences in the agglomeration level of top talents among colleges and universities will converge to their respective steady-state levels, contributing to the achievement of balanced development in regional higher education. #br#The novelty of this article lies in breaking away from the traditional binary view of talent outflow versus talent agglomeration and embracing the objective laws of talent mobility. From a spatial perspective, it investigates the spatial spillover effects and convergence of top talent agglomeration in Chinese colleges and universities. The study provides a sound theoretical framework and empirical evidence to guide the transition "from agglomeration to equilibrium" in the development of regional higher education.#br#
  • Enterprise Innovation Management
    Hou Guangwen,Liu Qingqing
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(17): 97-105. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023040540
    It is enterprises' capacity to withstand external shocks that either facilitate enterprises to recognize opportunities in rapidly changing business environments or result in regrettable exits amidst the digital wave. With the increasing occurrence of disruptive events, enterprises often encounter significant uncertainty and variability in innovation, making resilience and anti-fragility core elements for enterprise innovation. Resiliently managed enterprises can leverage advanced technologies and construct alliance networks to address multiple uncertainties arising from products, services, and external environments. Although digitalization facilitates enterprises in product creation processes, service re-engineering, and operational environments, the turbulence in the digital business environment exceeds managerial expectations. Conventional static hierarchical structures and response capabilities show insufficient adaptability to the environment, leading to unexpected turbulence, rigidity, and vulnerability to enterprise innovation. In practice, especially for technology-dependent scientific and technological enterprises, frequent unexpected uncertainties pose great challenges. Hence, exploring innovation resilience in the digital context is essential for enterprises to effectively manage uncertainty in the innovation process. Existing research primarily focuses on the perspectives of equilibrium and evolution, emphasizing maintainability and recover ability, but lacks a systematic consideration of innovation resilience as a holistic and dynamic evolutionary process; moreover, there is a lack of comprehensive analysis of the impact mechanism of enterprise innovation resilience throughout specific contexts.#br#In practice, enterprises tend to enhance risk resilience and construct self-adjustment mechanisms to deal with disruptive events and offset the influence of complex and dynamic environments, which can be comprehensively understood using systems thinking tools. Unlike the conventional empirical methods that focus on net effects between independent variables and outcomes, QCA, based on set theory, Boolean algebra and counterfactual analysis, emphasizes interpreting the complex nature of interactions among factors. To better understand how to promote enterprise innovation resilience, this study employs fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). As a mixed quantitative-qualitative analysis approach, the fsQCA can handle complex multi-factor relationships and focus on the relationships and complementarities among multiple factors. This study constructs a multifaceted model of antecedents for digital innovation resilience from the perspectives of organizational structure, dynamic capabilities, and innovation mechanisms based on the three-stage model of crisis management. Since scientific and technological enterprises exhibit stronger innovation dependency, higher costs and benefits, and need to endure greater innovation risks compared to general enterprises, they are taken as the research subjects, and 212 valid questionnaires are collected. Then the fsQCA method is applied to explore various equivalent configurations of antecedents for achieving innovation resilience, with a focus on the characteristics and capabilities that organizations need to cope with innovation risks and uncertainties.#br#The findings reveal that enterprise innovation resilience is a result of multiple factors interacting with each other. Flexible configurations imply that enterprises should select appropriate setups based on different practical scenarios and strategic planning, allocating resources reasonably.The enterprises with mere focus on standardization, regularization, and proceduralization may find it challenging to withstand such disruptive trends when operational environments change or new business models emerge in the industry. Conversely, pursuing radical innovation of business models in a stable operational state with significant competitive advantages may lead to an "innovation trap". With the emphasis on innovation stability,it is crucial to cultivate digital collaboration capabilities and engage in distributed innovation, ,and it requires to prioritize the development of digital perception capabilities and conduction of disruptive innovation in achieving innovation flexibility. Therefore, enterprises need to design rational management and decision-making models based on different strategic positioning and practical needs to activate innovation resilience, and make effective response to feedback from risks to improve efficiency. Top management in the digital context needs to balance routine and innovation, rather than pursuing stability or flexibility alone. Managers should continuously adjust strategies based on different application scenarios to enhance the ability to deal with risks and uncertainties. On the whole, this study analyzes the multiple pathways for activating enterprise innovation resilience in the digital context, providing theoretical guidance and practical insights for enterprises on how to quickly perceive market changes and provide flexible feedback to resist uncertainties and risks in the digital context.#br#
  • Sci-tech Talent Cultivation
    An Shimin,Jin Yuting,Zhang Yuqi
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(14): 132-141. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023030425
    In response to the Made in China 2025 strategy, it is critical to improve product quality and efficiency and realize the innovation-driven development strategy by carrying forward the craftsman spirit.The craftsman spirit is not only the basic element of enterprise technological innovation, but also helps to promote the transformation and upgrading to a manufacturing power and get rid of the distressing situation at the end of the global division of value for a long time.Therefore, how to cultivate and enhance the craftsman spirit has become a research hotspot in the field of organization management.Although the academic circle has given a constructive response to the connotation and historical responsibility of the craftsman spirit, as the micro-carrier of the craftsman spirit, the ideas and behavioral strategies of employees in enterprises have not received enough attention.Therefore, it is of great research value to explore the relationship between the craftsman spirit and employees' innovative behavior at the individual level.#br##br#In this study, individual duality is extended to the field of innovation behavior, and on this basis, the topic of how craftsman spirit can effectively improve employees' dual innovation potential is discussed.Following the work value theory and resource conservation theory, this study constructs a theoretical model with work prosperity as the mediating variable and error management climate as the moderating variable and explores the mechanism by which the craftsman spirit promoted the bi-variate innovation behavior by influencing the work prosperity of employees.This study collects cognitive data from employees through a questionnaire survey, with 414 valid questionnaires remained.Except for population information, other variables are measured using the five-point Likert scale.Finally, SPSS and its plug-in process and Amos are used to analyze the data and verify the hypotheses of this study.#br#The results show that craftsman spirit has a significant positive effect on employees' dual innovation.To be more detailed, the pursuit of excellence in work values can stimulate individual intrinsic motivation and growth needs, enhance employees' sense of belief in completing task goals, and thus make them more likely to achieve success through exploratory or exploitative innovative behavior.Thriving at work plays a mediating role between craftsman spirit and employees' dual innovation behavior.Furthermore, an open-oriented error management climate positively moderates the relationship between thriving at work and dual innovation behavior and enhances the mediating role of thriving at work.Employees working in organizations in an open-oriented error management climate are more able to confront errors and have positive responses after errors occur, daring to take on unknown risks through innovative behavior.A blame-oriented error management climate negatively moderates the relationship between thriving at work and dual innovation and weakens the mediating role of thriving at work because employees working in organizations with the atmosphere of blame-oriented error management tend to view errors with a negative attitude, thus avoiding innovation as much as possible, thereby reducing the risk of making mistakes and suppressing employees' dual innovation behavior.#br#The research contribution of this paper is mainly reflected in the following three aspects.First, this study breaks through the limit of the traditional single perspective, constructs the individual binary incentive mechanism from the dual perspective, and expands the empirical research on employee innovation behavior.Second, it responds to the call of the academic circle to expand the research on the effect of craftsman spirit.Finally, the theoretical demonstration and empirical test provide a new way to explain the effect of craftsman spirit on employees' dual innovation behavior, deepen the understanding of work prosperity and enrich relevant empirical research.Therefore, enterprises should keep improving various management systems, provide institutional guarantees for carrying forward and cultivating the spirit of craftsmanship, pay close attention to the psychological experience of employees, and vigorously promote employees to build and maintain a positive and enterprising spirit in an open and tolerant atmosphere for error management.#br#
  • Legal System and Policy of Science and Technology
    Xiao Renqiao,Cui Qi,Qian Li
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(17): 117-126. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.H202307194
    Green development is the fundamental way to implement the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and achieve the goals of "carbon peak" and "carbon neutrality". Furthermore, green innovation is a powerful driving force for green and high-quality development, and enterprises are an important subject of green innovation. Therefore, in order to continuously promote green development of economy and society and achieve the "dual carbon" goal , it is particularly important to explore new paths for green innovation in enterprises.#br#At the same time, the government attaches great importance to the coordination of green and digital development in its economy and society. Emerging digital technologies represented by the Internet, 5G technology and big data have been playing a key role in enabling innovation and driving high-quality economic development. In this context, the "Broadband China" pilot policy was proposed in 2013 and committed to building a well-connected network across China. As a result, the construction and application level of network infrastructure have significantly improved, which is beneficial for enterprises to obtain technical information and strengthen technical connections between enterprises.Then, how will the "Broadband China" pilot policy, by enhancing the level of network infrastructure construction, impact green innovation for enterprises?The answer to this question not only helps to uncover the mechanism behind the pilot policies empowering green innovation in enterprises but also provides relevant policy recommendations for the new generation of information infrastructure construction, thereby helping to achieve the "doble carbon" goal.#br#Drawing on the green development background and resource-based theory, this paper takes the pilot policy of "Broadband China" as a quasi-natural experiment to test its impact and mechanism on green innovation. The empirical test is made based on the data of 2 037 A-share listed companies from 2011 to 2021 and the DID model. The results indicate that, firstly, enterprise green innovation has been significantly promoted by the pilot policy of "Broadband China", and this conclusion remains valid after a series of robustness tests such as the placebo test and the PSM-DID test. Secondly, the influence of the "Broadband China" pilot policy on enterprise green innovation is characterized by heterogeneity of ownership, industry, and urban environmental regulation level. The pilot policy gives a more significant boost to SOEs which have heavily polluted industries and companies in cities with low environmental regulation. Thirdly, the mechanism test shows that the pilot policy of "Broadband China" mainly promotes green innovation of enterprises by improving the level of urban digital finance and promoting the digital transformation of enterprises, which is specifically reflected in improving the depth and coverage of urban digital finance and the resource input and attention of enterprises in digital transformation. By contrast, digital finance plays the strongest mediating role, followed by digital transformation. Further analysis shows that the spillover effect of the "Broadband China" pilot policy is significant, specifically manifested as the spillover of green innovation from the headquarters of listed companies to their subsidiaries and the spillover of green innovation between enterprises in neighboring cities.#br#On the basis of the research results, this paper puts forward some suggestions. Firstly, the pilot areas should summarize the construction experience and further promote the deep integration of network infrastructure with new generation information technologies; Non-pilot areas should formulate relevant policies, allocate special funds for network infrastructure renovation and upgrading, and narrow the gap with the construction of network infrastructure in pilot areas. Secondly, the government should formulate relevant incentive and regulatory policies tailored to local conditions, encourage heavily polluting enterprises to use digital technology for production process innovation, process innovation, material innovation to reduce their own pollutant emissions, and urge state-owned enterprises to play a leading role in green innovation. Lastly, the government should further improve the digital infrastructure of cities, promote financial institutions and enterprises to transform using digital technology, and better leverage the role of digitalization in promoting green innovation.#br#
  • Green Innovation Column
    Yan Ruosen,Lyu Zhidong,Li Hao,Zhou Ran
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(18): 12-22. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2024010566
    Shareholder activism in modern enterprises has a positive impact on corporate reputation as well as long-term growth, and thus it is an important factor affecting corporate operations. The demands of activist shareholders include not only improving financial performance, but also actively seeking the improvement of corporate social performance and paying attention to the sustainable development of enterprises. Environmental shareholder activism has emerged in the context of a growing global consensus on environmental and climate issues, and enterprises that are targeted by shareholder activism are more likely to respond positively to environmental needs. Green innovation is the most effective way for firms to tackle pollution, especially those in heavily polluting industries, but few studies have yet explored the impact of environmental shareholder activism on corporate green innovation. The most important influencing factor for enterprises in heavily polluting industries to carry out green innovation comes from the enterprises themselves. Among them, differences in corporate governance will have different effects on corporate green innovation. Shareholders will naturally pay more attention to green innovation in order to enhance the profitability of enterprises. Thus, this paper explores the impact of environmental shareholder activism on corporate green innovation based on the fact that enterprises in heavily polluted industries are the focus of attention in the promotion of green development in China.#br#This study selects A-share listed enterprises in the heavy pollution industry in China's Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets from 2013 to 2022 as the research sample. After screening the preliminary matched samples, it obtains a total of 1 037 enterprises and 8 076 observation samples. Then, the study collects data on environmental shareholder activism and green innovation of sample companies, empirically examines the impact of environmental shareholder activism on corporate green innovation, and explores the role mechanism of management's environmental attention on this effect. Further, it examines the heterogeneous effects of contextual factors such as the level of environmental regulation, the degree of marketization in the region, and the nature of corporate ownership on the relationship between shareholder environmental activism and corporate green innovation.#br#It is found that environmental shareholder activism can significantly promote green innovation in enterprises, and after specifically categorizing green innovation into green utility innovation and green invention innovation, environmental shareholder activism can play a significant role in promoting both types of green innovation, which verifies the important role of environmental shareholder activism in promoting green governance. The mechanism test results suggest that increasing managerial environmental attention is an important mechanism path for shareholder environmental activism to promote corporate green innovation, shareholder environmental activism can raise managerial environmental attention, and then promote corporate green innovation. Heterogeneity analysis finds that the promotion effect of environmental shareholder activism on corporate green innovation is more pronounced in firms that are subject to stronger environmental regulations, located in regions with a higher degree of marketization, and with the nature of state-owned property rights. Once again, stronger environmental regulation and a good market environment constitute a favorable external environment for promoting green innovation in enterprises, and the government should design appropriate environmental regulation tools, create a good market environment and play the role of market facilitation.#br#There are three potential marginal contributions in this study. Firstly, it enriches the research on the antecedents of enterprise green innovation. From the perspective of shareholder governance, this study confirms the role of environmental shareholder activism in promoting the green innovation of enterprises, and provides a new perspective for investigating the green innovation of enterprises. Secondly, it enriches the research category of shareholder activism. There are few studies exploring the impact of shareholder activism on corporate green innovation. This paper expands and deepens the research on shareholder activism by confirming the positive governance effect of shareholder environmental activism on corporate green innovation. Thirdly, starting from the factor of management environmental attention, this paper pioneers the study on the path mechanism of shareholder environmental activism's influence on corporate green innovation, which is conducive to understanding the transmission path of shareholder governance's influence on corporate green innovation, and promoting managerial rational distribution of attention and resources, so as to promote corporate green innovation.#br#
  • New Quality Productive Forces Column
    Zhao Yanan, Xie Yongping
    Science & Technology Progress and Policy. 2025, 42(1): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2024060391
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    With the new generation of technological revolution and the acceleration of industrial transformation, it is increasingly urgent to promote China's high-quality development through new quality productive forces. The innovation network is a more suitable platform for the repeated exchange of tacit and embedded knowledge than market transactions. It is effective in enhancing enterprise innovation capabilities, achieving breakthroughs in key technologies, and forming new quality productive forces. To promote the qualitative leap in the advanced productive forces of innovation network member enterprises and achieve high-quality development, this paper attempts to answer the following key questions: How does core enterprises' knowledge spillover drive network members' new quality productive forces? What roles do network homogenization and relationship capital play in this process?
    On the basis of the knowledge-based view and resource-dependence theory, this paper analyzes the relationship between core enterprise's knowledge spillover and network member's new quality productive forces. The research adopts survey data from 392 enterprises and conducts an empirical analysis using SPSS and Amos. The results show that (1) there is a significant positive relationship between core enterprise's knowledge spillover and network member's new quality productive forces. The influence of core enterprises on network members mainly stems from knowledge spillover, and under its continuous influence, the new quality productive forces of network members can be improved. (2) Network homogenization negatively moderates the impact of core enterprise's knowledge spillover on network member's new quality productive forces. Network homogenization implies a lack of resource, skill, and capability complementarity among members, rendering enterprise resources less unique, valuable, and scarce. Consequently, core enterprise's knowledge spillover cannot provide deeper knowledge and technology interaction for network members, reducing the chance for network members to increase their knowledge diversity and ultimately affecting the development of network member's new quality productive forces. (3) Relational capital positively modulates the relationship between core enterprise's knowledge spillover and network member's new quality productive forces. Strong relationships among innovation network members benefit enterprises in obtaining more social capital, which promotes the exchange and sharing of knowledge and information, and fosters the growth of new talents and the accumulation of new labor materials.
    Theoretically speaking, this paper firstly supplements the empirical study of new quality productive forces at the enterprise level. Then it constructs a measurement scale of network member's new quality productive forces, which provides ideas and methods for further empirical research related to new qualitative productive forces at the enterprise level. Secondly, from the perspective of the interaction of innovation network members, this paper explores the impact of core enterprise's knowledge spillover on network member's new quality productive forces, enrich the theoretical connotation of existing research and promote the development of knowledge spillover related theoretical research. Thirdly, by integrating the knowledge-based view and resource dependence theory into the research on the knowledge spillover effects of the core enterprise, the applicability of these theories is enhanced, offering a new perspective to understand the knowledge spillover effects of core enterprises. Lastly, it is a valuable addition to the research on the knowledge-based view and resource-dependence theory to incorporate network homogenization and relational capital into the research framework. This expands the scope of research on the knowledge spillover effects of core enterprises and responds to scholars' recognition of the core enterprise's knowledge spillover effects.
    The results hold practical significance as follows: (1) The transformation and enhancement of productive forces quality in innovation networks can not be separated from core enterprise's knowledge spillover. If network members aim to develop new quality productive forces, they must realize the importance of core enterprise's knowledge spillover and expand the channels for enterprises to obtain new knowledge, technical information and other resources. (2)The findings affirm the importance of enterprise knowledge heterogeneity, and suggest that enterprises should select partners based on their own existing knowledge, in innovation networks, members should be clear about who to approach in order to gain more reconfigurable knowledge. (3) Strong relationship capital is the effective support to promote new quality productive forces, and the continuous accumulation of relationship capital can ensure that network members have an advantage in choosing partners for core enterprises. (4)In the process of high-quality development of innovation network, it is necessary to adopt tailored measures for different enterprises.
  • Knowledge Science and Knowledge Engineering
    Wang Song,Xu Yajing,Liu Xinmin
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(14): 102-110. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023040003
    In a dynamic environment characterized by globalization, technological progress, and an unstable product life cycle, multi-subject collaboration has become the mainstream of innovation to integrate innovation factors.Many companies have thus established virtual communities to promote the effective improvement of the virtuous cycle of their knowledge system and the effective improvement of innovative performance.However, from the perspective of current theoretical research and practice exploration, it is not easy to integrate the intellectual resources of different actors to achieve co-creation.The diversity and complexity of virtual community resources have increased the difficulty of coordination and cooperation, and the original intention of creation does not always get positive results.At present, the research on the impact of the innovative performance of virtual communities has paid attention to factors such as users, the environment, etc; while emphasizing the importance of knowledge.The research perspective has also been expanded from a single subject to group factors.However, research on the effects of factor synergy in the process is still rare.In the process of participating in innovation in this multi-party collaboration and dynamic interaction, users of different levels in the community have not reached any specific conclusion about whether the differences in different levels of personal ability and innovation motivation will affect the overall innovation level in the community.The knowledge of the open-type innovation community requires the interaction and collaboration of multiple participants.It is a dynamic iteration process that interacts between users and knowledge.#br#From the perspective of open innovative community knowledge, this study focuses on the coordination process of knowledge co-creation, introduces the activity of the knowledge field, and examines the impact of the multi-dimensional heterogeneity of factors on innovation performance and knowledge in the process of synergy.The mediating role in the field activity provides a useful reference for maximizing the advantages of synergy and heterogeneity to improve community innovation performance.Specifically, this paper is based on resource basic theory and team heterogeneity theory, and it refines the measurability of multi-dimensional factors in community knowledge from the perspective of knowledge creation.The knowledge of users based on the open innovation platform creates a total virtual self-socialization process.In this process, users will be influenced by internal and external key factors.There will be a rich co-creation experience for different users in virtual scenes.While users share the differences in the content of knowledge, the different expressions, and the emotional tendencies during the interaction process, the emotional tendencies will affect the final co-creation performance.The connotation of the concept of heterogeneity of the virtual community is thus analyzed as the content heterogeneity, emotional heterogeneity, and expression of the user, and follows the logic of "synergistic heterogeneity → knowledge field activity → innovative performance "; through theoretical derivation, this study builds the main effect research framework for the heterogeneity of synergy, examines the differentiated effects of different dimensions of heterogeneity factors on value co-creation, as well as the mediating transmission role of the knowledge field activity.#br#The study obtains online data from the "Flyme" section of the Meizu community for empirical analysis.The results show that in the process of knowledge creation, the heterogeneity of users and expression forms of users have a positive impact on community knowledge field activity, and emotional heterogeneity has an inverted U-type on knowledge field activity.Knowledge field activity has a positive impact on innovative performance, and plays a mediating role in user heterogeneity, content heterogeneity and innovative performance.In theory, this paper details the role of knowledge creation theory in the situation of virtual community situations, enriches the theoretical system of creative innovation value of virtual community users, and lays the theoretical foundation for the sustainable development of the virtual community.At the practical level, on the one hand, it guides users to participate in the interaction process, optimize the atmosphere of community cooperation, improve community users' intellectual literacy, and strengthen their motivation for collaborative participation; on the other hand, it clarifies the characteristic factors of virtual communities, provides guidelines for the scientific management of virtual communities and improvement of community innovation performance.#br#
  • New Quality Productive Forces Column
    Yang Yang,Guo Jiaqin,Wang Shaoguo
    Science & Technology Progress and Policy. 2024, 41(22): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.L2024XZ645
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    New-quality productive forces are generated by scientific and technological innovation and the realization of key disruptive technological breakthroughs, and it is a powerful engine for high-quality development. New quality productive forces, with strategic emerging industries and future industries as the leading industries, are mainly involved in fields with strong innovation and advanced technologies and are committed to empowering regional high-quality development through scientific and technological innovation. In order to maintain a leading position in the competitive global environment and promote China's high-quality economic growth, it is necessary to stimulate industrial innovation through major disruptive scientific and technological innovations, facilitate transform and upgrade the industrial structure to create a new competitive advantage, and endeavor to cultivate the new quality productive forces.
    The high-quality development of cities, as important spatial carriers and geographic activity units for economic and social development, remains an important issue of our time. Can new productive forces, as a key initiative to reshape new dynamics, be an important way to help cities develop in a high-quality manner If so, what is the internal logic of new-quality productive forces influencing the high-quality development of cities? An overview of the existing literature shows there is a relative lack of empirical research on the relationship between the two. In view of this, this paper tries to put the new quality productive forces and high-quality urban development in the same research framework, and takes entrepreneurial activity as the starting point to explore the mechanism of new quality productive forces on high-quality urban development, so as to further provide a theoretical and practical basis for China's high-quality development.
    Employing the panel data of 244 prefecture-level cities in China from 2011 to 2021, this study explores the intrinsic mechanism by which new quality productive forces affect the high-quality development of cities, using new quality productive forces as the entry point. Building on this foundation, the study examines the transmission mechanism through which new quality productive forces influence high-quality urban development by enhancing entrepreneurial activity, with entrepreneurial activity serving as the mediating variable. Subsequently, it delves into the non-linear influence of new quality productive forces on high-quality urban development at varying stages of industrial structure upgrading, talent concentration, and scientific and technological innovation. Then, the study investigates the non-linear impact of new productive forces on high-quality urban development when industrial structure upgrading, talent concentration, science and technology innovation are at different stages, and finally, it analyzes the spatial spillover effect of new productive forces on high-quality urban development according to the spatial levels.
    The study finds that (1) new productive forces have a direct role in promoting high-quality development, and from the perspective of the financial environment of entrepreneurship and the level of talent capital, cities with a higher level of financial development and talent capital have an obvious role in promoting high-quality development; at the same time, entrepreneurial activity is an important channel through which the new productive forces promote the high-quality urban development. (2) The impact of new quality productive forces on high-quality urban development is affected by the threshold effect of industrial structure upgrading, talent concentration, and scientific and technological innovation level, and the impact of new quality productive forces on high-quality urban development presents a non-linear effect of increasing marginal utility under the development level of higher threshold variables. (3) The impact of new quality productive forces on high-quality development has a significant positive spatial spillover effect, and the development of local new quality productive forces can drive the high-quality development of areas with close economic ties.
    Possible marginal contributions of this article are that,firstly, from the perspective of empirical measurement, the study explores the mechanism of the impact of new quality productive forces on high-quality urban development, and focuses on the impact of new quality productive forces on the high-quality development of cities; moreover, by incorporating industrial structure upgrading, talent concentration and scientific and technological innovation level into the analysis framework, it explores the threshold effect of the new quality productive forces on the high-quality urban development.
  • Green Innovation Column
    Meng Dabin,Li Xinyu,Li Lei
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(18): 23-32. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023040174
    Since the signing of the Paris Agreement, global climate governance has entered a new stage, and some governments have been actively deepening international cooperation to promote global green and sustainable development. Green finance is a new financial model that combines environmental protection with economic profits, playing a significant role in environmental governance. In this context, green finance policies have greater impacts on the financial costs of high-pollution and high-energy-consumption enterprises with two mechanisms of action; on the one hand, green finance policies directly raise the financial threshold for high-energy-consumption and high-pollution enterprises, increasing their debt financing costs; on the other hand, these enterprises can establish good social images through green technology innovation and green information disclosure, which not only helps to gain the favor of investors but also obtain green financial policy support, and to some extent alleviates their costs of debt financing. The purpose of this study is to explore the mechanism and effectiveness of green finance policies, for it would be conducive to improving China's green finance policy system and guiding the green transformation and upgrading of high-energy-consumption and high-pollution enterprises, thus providing important theoretical and practical significance for China's green transformation.#br#The current research on green finance policies has some inadequacies. Firstly, the existing literature assumes that green finance policies increase the difficulty of financing for high-energy-consumption and high-pollution enterprises, thus increasing their total financial costs. In fact, this confuses the total quantity effect and cost effect. Secondly, the existing research ignores the strategic behavior of high-energy-consumption and high-pollution enterprises. Enterprises can take "signaling warfare" to deal with the impact of adverse policies on their financing costs, such as reducing their external financing costs by creating adverse selection through environmental disclosure. Furthermore, the role of green finance policies is a dynamic process, and the policies themselves are committed to stimulating green technology innovation and achieving green transformation in enterprises. After the transformation, the financing costs of enterprises have been significantly reduced, and thus relevant research is insufficient.#br#Following the theory of incomplete information dynamic game, this study reveals the relationship between strategic behavior and financing activities of high-energy-consumption and high-pollution enterprises against the backdrop of green finance policies. Green finance policies can trigger "signal warfare" and green innovation behavior of enterprises, forming multiple Nash equilibria, and having different impacts on the financing of high-energy-consumption and high-pollution enterprises. In order to verify the correctness of the theory, on the basis of the relevant data of 537 listed companies, this paper adopts the chain mediation effect model to examine the impact of green financial policies on the financial costs of high-energy-consumption and high-pollution enterprises. The study finds that green financial policies can not only directly alleviate the financing costs of high-energy-consumption and high-pollution enterprises, but also play the mediating role of environmental information disclosure and green technology innovation. Then, the three indirect paths of environmental information disclosure and green technology innovation as chain mediators reduce their financing costs.#br#This study provides a new perspective for the study of the mechanism of green finance policy, and suggestions for policy improvement are presented. First, the environmental protection department should establish environmental information review agencies which are expected to collect and evaluate the environmental information disclosed by high-energy-consumption and high-pollution enterprises, and then issue relevant evaluation reports. The review of environmental information by third-party institutions and the issuance of relevant reports are conducive to reducing information asymmetry and improving transaction efficiency in the capital market. Second, the government should establish an incentive mechanism for promoting green innovation through the joint participation of the government, enterprises, and the public by making favorable policies to attract and cultivate elite talent, improving the intellectual property protection system, and increasing public awareness and understanding of green innovation. Third, for the enterprises with green innovation capabilities but insufficient R&D investment, the government should establish special funds to support these enterprises and expand their financing channels.#br#
  • Industrial Technological Progress
    Yang Jin,Zhu Yanbin
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(18): 87-97. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023050348
    Disruptive technological innovation has important strategic significance for China's strategic emerging enterprises to break through foreign technological blockades and achieve independent control of key technologies. It is precisely through the evolution and development of a series of disruptive technological innovations that China's new energy vehicle enterprises have achieved a profound transformation in key technologies and market patterns. Therefore, it is of significance to clarify the internal mechanism of disruptive technological innovation in China's new energy vehicle enterprises, which can provide reference for the innovation and development of strategic emerging enterprises.#br#Disruptive technological innovation is endowed with strong exploration, a long research and development cycle, and high risk. The relevant technological and market changes evolve through the interaction of technological iteration innovation and market segmentation diffusion. Therefore, revealing the evolutionary laws of disruptive technological innovation in China's new energy vehicle enterprises from both technological and market perspectives is the underlying logic for exploring its realization mechanism. However, the existing research on the realization mechanism of disruptive technological innovation of China's new energy vehicle enterprises is mostly based on the guiding role of macro-policies and the synergistic effect of middle-level industries, and insufficient attention is paid to the innovative main role of new energy vehicle enterprises; the evolutionary laws of disruptive technological innovation in technology iteration and market diffusion in China's new energy vehicle enterprises are not clear, and the dynamics and complexity of disruptive technological innovation in enterprises are in need of deconstruction; moreover, the interaction between resource-focused actions and dynamic capabilities and their mechanism of action on disruptive technological innovation are in the vague.#br#Therefore, this study aims to answer the following questions: (1) What are the laws of the occurrence and evolution of disruptive technological innovation in China's new energy vehicle enterprises? (2) How do enterprises conduct resource-focused actions and build dynamic capabilities at different stages of development? (3) How does the interaction effect of resource-focused actions and dynamic capabilities affect the disruptive technological innovation of China's new energy vehicle enterprises?#br#To address the issues, the paper selects 5 typical cases of China's new energy vehicle enterprises for longitudinal exploratory research, and forms 87 000 words of cross-verification data through diversified data collection methods. It firstly identifies the key milestone events of three enterprises for stage division. Then it extracts 3 core categories, 9 main categories and 27 subcategories from 392 pieces of evidence through open coding, axial coding and selective coding, and further constructs the process model of disruptive technological innovation of China's new energy vehicle enterprises in combination with stage markers. Thirdly, the study conducts a theoretical saturation test on the process model using the remaining two enterprises. On the basis of the process model, the paper constructs a realization mechanism model of disruptive technological innovation in new energy vehicle enterprises in order to explore the interaction effects between resource-focused actions and dynamic capabilities on the realization and evolution of disruptive technological innovation.#br#The study finds that (1) the disruptive technological innovation of new energy vehicle enterprises presents three characteristics: continuous enrichment of technological innovation methods, continuous iteration of technological life cycle, and sequential realization of niche market development, medium and high-end market penetration and high-end market introduction; (2) enterprises have gradually realized the combination, capability and leverage of resources through the resource-focused actions of resource bricolage-resource choreography-resource orchestration, while the dynamic capabilities have experienced the evolution process of externally oriented environmental perception, internally driven learning and innovation, and internal and external collaborative integration and expansion capabilities, realizing the upgrading from the first-order ability to adapt to the environment to the second-order ability to create new capabilities; (3) as the key factors for the realization and evolution of disruptive technological innovation, the interaction between resource-focused actions and dynamic capabilities of enterprises has experienced a three-stage transition from factor aggregation to knowledge innovation to system symbiosis, and they have respectively played foundation, promotion and leading roles in the emergence, development and upgrading of disruptive technological innovation. The research conclusions provide strategic support for promoting China's new energy vehicle enterprises to carry out organized disruptive technological innovation activities.#br#
  • Industrial Technological Progress
    Li Zhi,Dong Sirui
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(14): 38-48. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023090735
    China's manufacturing industry has gradually become deeply embedded in the global value chain and integrated into the global production network established by developed countries (or regions) and their transnational corporations, accompanied by a state of "low-end lock-in".This new economic paradigm of scientific and technological financial investment has a positive role in promoting technological innovation in the manufacturing industry, helping to crack the "low-end lock-in" of China's manufacturing industry in the global value chain, and upgrading the status of China's manufacturing industry in the global value chain.This paper integrates science and technology financial investment, technology transfer and manufacturing value chain upgrading within the same research framework, and delves into the role of the mechanism among the three.#br#This paper utilizes China's provincial panel data from 2011—2021 to measure the technological complexity of manufacturing exports to measure the position of manufacturing in the global value chain, and then empirically examines the impact of science and technology financial inputs on the upgrading of the manufacturing value chain from the perspective of technology transfer.The study finds that (1) science and technology financial inputs can promote the climbing of the global value chain of the manufacturing industry; (2) the promotion effect of S&T financial inputs on the upgrading of manufacturing global value chain shows regional and source heterogeneity, i.e., on the one hand, the promotion effect of S&T financial inputs on the upgrading of manufacturing value chain in the eastern region is more significant; on the other hand, S&T financial inputs originated from the venture capital, science and technology capital market, and the enterprises themselves have a more significant role in the promotion of manufacturing value chain upgrading; (3) the mediating effect test confirms that technology transfer plays a partly mediating role in the process of promoting the upgrading of manufacturing value chain by S&T financial inputs, and the in-depth analysis further verifies that science and technology financial inputs from the capital market and enterprises themselves can play a role in promoting the upgrading of the manufacturing value chain with the mediating effect of technology transfer in the whole life cycle of manufacturing enterprises; (4) the threshold effect test verifies that with technology transfer as the threshold variable, the promotion effect of science and technology financial investment on the upgrading of the manufacturing value chain has a non-linear characteristic, and only when the level of technology transfer crosses a specific threshold value, science and technology financial investment will promote the upgrading of the manufacturing value chain.#br#The analysis suggests that it is necessary to improve the science and technology investment and financing system and promote the development of science and technology finance; meanwhile, it is important to improve the level of technology transfer in China and strengthen the promotion mechanism of science and technology finance for the upgrading of the manufacturing value chain.In this case, a technology transfer platform and network are warranted to promote the efficient flow of technology and innovation resources.#br#The novelties and theoretical contributions of this study are listed.Firstly, it innovatively puts science and technology financial input, technology transfer and the upgrading of manufacturing value chain under the same research framework to analyze the role mechanism of science and technology financial input on the upgrading of manufacturing value chain from the perspective of technology transfer, and provides a new breakthrough for China's manufacturing industry to crack the "low-end lock-in" dilemma and climb up the global value chain.Secondly, the study analyzes the impact of different sources of science and technology financial inputs on the upgrading of the manufacturing value chain at various stages of the enterprise life cycle, as well as the role played by technology transfer, which provides relatively robust and comprehensive empirical evidence for giving full play to the role of science and technology financial inputs in the promotion of the upgrading of the manufacturing value chain.Finally, after testing the mechanism of science and technology financial inputs on the value chain of the manufacturing industry, this paper also establishes a threshold model to explore the non-linear effects.#br#
  • Industrial Technological Progress
    Wang Guohong,Lin Huan,Huang Hao
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(18): 77-86. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.2023040678
    In recent years, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have encountered frequent operational emergencies, such as urgent cash flow and blocked supply chains. How to promote enterprises to improve organizational resilience to cope with challenges has become an important topic in management practice. In the present digital era, digital knowledge and information resources have become key production factors. Relying on digital resources to improve and reshape systems and processes has become an important means for enterprises to build organizational resilience and enhance competitive advantages. However, most of the existing studies have paid too much attention to the endpoint effect of resources and neglected to explore resource management actions from the perspective of process, that is, the mechanism of resource orchestration on the formation of organizational resilience. In fact, the effective management of digital resources plays a more important role in fostering organizational resilience. Thus, it is an urgent issue to clarify the specific process of how resource orchestration affects the formation of organizational resilience.#br#In view of the above research status and practical background, this paper constructs a theoretical framework among resource orchestration, digitalization ability, transformational leadership and organizational resilience. Then it takes the resource orchestration theory as the research perspective to discuss the relationship between resource orchestration and organizational resilience of SMEs, and explores the mechanism mediating the role of digitalization ability and the moderating role of transformational leadership. By collecting the data from 334 SMEs samples, the hypothesis is empirically tested by structural equation modeling (SEM), bootstrapping, and the Johnson-Neyman (J-N) method.#br#The results show that (1) resource construction and resource coordination in crisis situations have a positive impact on organizational resilience in SMEs; (2) digital operational capabilities and digital collaboration capabilities mediate the relationship between resource orchestration and organizational resilience, while the mediating role of digital perception capabilities is not confirmed; (3) transformational leadership positively moderates the relationship among digital operational capabilities, digital collaboration capabilities and organizational resilience.#br#Theoretical contributions are as follows. First, following the resource orchestration theory, this study provides a new perspective on how digitalization affects the formation of organizational resilience and expands the theoretical research boundaries of existing research on resource orchestration and organizational resilience. Second, the research framework of“resource orchestration-digitalization ability-organizational resilience” is built from the perspective of digitalization, which further clarifies the intrinsic relationship between resource orchestration and organizational resilience. The study remedies the limitation that the relationship between resource orchestration and organizational resilience has not been effectively explored. Third, this study considers transformational leadership as an external intervention that influences resource orchestration to have an effect on organizational resilience through digital capabilities, which extends the research content of transformational leadership in the digital era, complements and improves the boundary conditions for the formation of organizational resilience.#br#The managerial insights into how SMEs can develop organizational resilience in the digital economy are presented. First, SMEs should focus on taking resource orchestration actions to achieve effective access to and management of required digital resources. Due to limited resources such as capital, technology and human resources, SMEs should fully consider the professional advantages of third-party service organizations in the process of digitization. Second, it should enhance the digital perception, operational and collaboration capabilities that drive the formation of organizational resilience. Resource orchestration action for enterprises to adapt to the required digital resources is a prerequisite for leveraging the transformation and development of enterprises, while digital capabilities determine the extent to which enterprises can benefit from their digital technologies and infrastructure, so as to better empower the building of organizational resilience. Finally, transformational leadership should play an important role in facilitating value co-creation among organizational members. In the digital economy, managers need to develop a strategic plan for transformation and continuously promote its implementation, playing the role of“helmsman” to help companies stand firm in the rapidly changing digital economy.#br#
  • Digital Innovation Ecosystems
    Lyu Kun,Pan Junbai,Li Beiwei
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND POLICY. 2024, 41(16): 24-36. https://doi.org/10.6049/kjjbydc.YX202305069
    The Chinese government is endeavoring to implement the strategy of innovation-driven development.From the perspective of regional innovation, research on regional innovation ecosystem based on niche theory has become the focus of academic research. A regional innovation ecosystem is a system formed by the material exchange, energy exchange, and information exchange between each innovation subject and its environment in a specific space and time range, and its resilience is considered to be the ability of the system to resist external shocks and disturbances, adjust and recover itself through the coordination of internal entities, resource integration and energy flow. Although there were 10 regions selected for comprehensive innovation reform pilot experiments, few studies have explored the impact mechanism of comprehensive innovation reform on the overall regional innovation ecosystem and its resilience. In addition, each evolution stage of the regional innovation ecosystem is closely related to the regional marketization process, economic development level, government behavior, resource stock and other environmental factors. The soft environment represented by laws and regulations, market price mechanism flexibility, and financial trading activity is profoundly affecting the evolution of the regional innovation ecosystem. Moreover, the comprehensive innovation reform test clearly takes policy measures and institutional arrangements as the key tasks of the reform. Therefore, it is necessary to incorporate the comprehensive innovation reform experiment, the soft environment and the resilience of regional innovation ecosystem into a unified research framework for analysis.#br#This paper designs a set of quasi-natural experiments based on the SDID model and the DML model, and with the panel data of 30 provinces in mainland China (except Tibet) from 2009 to 2021, it conducts empirical research on the five mechanisms involved in the research system of "comprehensive innovation reform experiment—soft environment—resilience of regional innovation ecosystem": (1) the impact mechanism of comprehensive innovation reform experiment on the resilience of regional innovation ecosystem; (2) the impact of soft environment on the resilience of regional innovation ecosystem; (3) how the spatial effects of comprehensive innovation reform experiment and soft environment affect the resilience of regional innovation ecosystem respectively; (4) whether the comprehensive innovation reform experiment can adjust the influence mechanism of soft environment on regional innovation ecosystem, and whether the adjustment effect is positive or negative; (5) the role of soft environment in the path of comprehensive innovation reform experiment on the resilience of regional innovation ecosystem.#br#It is concluded that, first, comprehensive innovation reform can impact innovation accumulation, knowledge aggregate and resource allocation optimization, which has a significant promoting effect on improving the resilience of regional innovation ecosystem. Among them, the comprehensive innovation reform can play a direct positive impact on the evolution, mobility and coordination of the regional innovation ecosystem, but the direct effect on diversity is not significant, indicating that the short-term economic behavior of local governments is not conducive to the development and scale expansion of multiple innovation entities in the regional innovation ecosystem. In addition, due to the siphon effect and disorderly competition between regions, comprehensive innovation reform will strengthen the geographical polarization of the resilience of regional innovation ecosystems.Second, a high-quality soft environment can provide favorable market competition conditions, stable social order, and structural improvement of the regional innovation ecosystem in terms of institutional arrangements and innovation ecological construction. Therefore, the positive factors in the region can be mobilized to strengthen the complexity, self-organization and self-recovery abilities of the regional innovation ecosystem, and enhance its resilience. In addition, the soft environment can also realize the spillover effect based on the economic spatial weight matrix. Finally, comprehensive innovation reform can strengthen the enhancement effect of soft environment on the resilience of regional innovation ecosystem, and the optimization of soft environment can adjust the negative spatial spillover effect of comprehensive innovation reform on the resilience of regional innovation ecosystem due to the spatial siphon effect. Meanwhile, comprehensive innovation reform can optimize the soft environment to promote the diversity, buffering, evolution, mobility and coordination of regional innovation ecosystem, especially for diversity. Although the comprehensive innovation reform itself has a limited impact on the diversification and scale development of innovation entities, it can have a positive indirect impact on diversity by adjusting the soft environment.#br#