Evolutions of China’s Inter-regional R&D Collaboration Patterns: Based on the Three-dimensional Analysis of Organization, Geography and Technology

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10.2991/msmi-19.2019.24How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Inter-regional R&D collaboration, Pattern, Evolution, Organization, Geography, Technology.

Abstract

Inter-regional collaboration plays an important role in booting the flow of knowledge and technology between cross-border actors. The existing research focus on collaboration pattern itself and its spatial characteristics, but ignored its technological characteristics. This paper proposes a three-dimensional analytical framework, and applies the framework to the Chinese case by examining collaborative invention patent applications from 1985 to 2015. Results show that, first, the evolutions of China’s inter-regional R&D collaboration patterns differ greatly; second, geographic constraint on China’s inter-regional knowledge flows mainly exists in early period, especially for two patterns (inter-regional collaboration between enterprises, and between enterprises and academic institutions); third, China’s inter-regional R&D collaboration mainly took place in related technological fields in early period, but in unrelated technological fields for two patterns (inter-regional collaboration between academic institutions, and between enterprises and academic institutions) in the last two periods. Chemistry and Metallurgy, Physics, Electricity are main collaborative fields.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Feng-Chao Liu
AU  - Fei-Fei Yan
AU  - Na Zhang
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - Evolutions of China’s Inter-regional R&D Collaboration Patterns: Based on the Three-dimensional Analysis of Organization, Geography and Technology
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Management Science and Management Innovation (MSMI 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 129
EP  - 134
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/msmi-19.2019.24
DO  - 10.2991/msmi-19.2019.24
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