CICALICS Academy and Workshop 2017

Aug. 24-30, 2017

Tsinghua University

Background

The initiative of CICALICS is built upon the experience by academia in innovation studies. The experience

shows that innovation studies can be greatly strengthened when scholars form China and overseas

networks and organize research and training together. The topic of innovation studies has received

increasing support from the political level, from policy makers and business managers and an increasing

number of universities and research institutes has established innovation studies groups or research

centers.

What is CICALICS

The purpose of CICALICS is to be a meeting place for scholars of innovation from innovation studies and

centers in China and using CICALICS to reach and be a member of the global community of innovation

researchers through GLOBALICS (Global Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and

Competence Building Systems) among others. Another purpose of CICALICS is research training of young

scholars and doctoral students.

The mission of CICALICS includes the following:

1. Invite a limited number of outstanding international innovation scholars to become CICALICS members

which form the outer circle.

2. Create an open national-level network of Chinese innovation scholars – and public administrators /

policy makers which form the inner circle.

3. Central nodes in both the inner and outer circle are the centers for innovation research at Tsinghua

Research Center for Technological Innovation (RCTI), Zhejiang University National Institute of

Innovation Management (NIIM), and the Sino-Danish Center for education and research (SDC) with

University of Chinese Academy of Science.

4. The network organizes two annual events on late August.

• An annual CICALICS Workshop. The 2 days’ workshop normally invites some international scholars,

together with more Chinese participants. The workshop is at time combined with public lectures on

innovation management and policy issues.

• An annual CICALICS Academy, delivering research training to Ph.D. students from China and from

abroad. CICALICS Academy invites both international and Chinese scholars as lecturers, some of

whom would be invited from among the participants in CICALICS Workshop.

Schedule of CICALICS Academy

Morning Session Afternoon Session

August 24

(Thursday)

Room 418

8: 00-8:50am 9:00-12:00am 1:45-5:00pm 6:30-9:30pm

Registration (8:00-

8:30am)

Opening and Group

Picture (8:30-8:50am)

(Prof. Jin Chen)

Firms, complementary

assets and the natural

environment

(Prof. John Ulhoi)

Can a 150 years old

company act like a

start-up?

(Mr. Gerardo MAZZEO,

Global Innovation

Director, Nestle)

Venue: Tsinghua x-lab

What constitutes a

scientific contribution

and scientific impact in

business

administration

(Prof. John Ulhoi)

August 25

(Friday)

Room 418

8: 30-10:00am 10:30-12:00am 1:30-3:00pm 3:30-5:00pm

The institutional foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship

(Prof. Wesley Sine)

CICALICS 2017 Workshop, August 26 ~ 27, 2017 (Saturday & Sunday)

8: 30-10:00am 10:30-12:00am 1:30-3:00pm 3:30-5:00pm

August 28

(Monday)

Room 215

How to run a survey

(Prof. Anthony Arundel)

How to run a survey

(Prof. Anthony Arundel)

Students presentation

（Bohao LI & Wen

LIU）

Students presentation

（Xiao CHEN & Xiuling

LIU）

August 29

(Tuesday)

Room 215

Innovation and

Intellectual Property

Management

(Prof. Can HUANG)

Innovation and

Intellectual Property

Management

(Prof. Can HUANG)

Students presentation

（Po-Hsuan CHEN &

Xiaoting HU）

Students presentation

（Kou KOU & Boxu

YANG）

August 30

(Wednesday)

Room 215

MNCs and innovation

(Prof. Zhenzhen XIE)

MNCs and innovation

(Prof. Zhenzhen XIE)

Meet a better you as

PhD goes on

(Jiamin Zhang)

General discussion &

Closing Session

DATE TIME SESSION CHAIR Presentor Title

8:30 - 9:00

9:00 - 9:15 Open Shulin Gu CICALICS Introduction

9:15 - 10:00Wesley

SineEntrepreneurship & the Institutional Environment

10:00 - 10:45 Can Huang Management Transformation of Huawei

10:45 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:30Anthony

ArundelManaging risk in public sector innovation

11:30 - 12:00 Shulin GuRelationship between Science and Technology--A

Lasting-Daunting Difficulty of STI Policy in China

12:00 - 12:30Olav

SorensenWho dominate the global value system?

12:30 - 14:00

TIME SESSION Presentor Discussant Title

14:00 - 14:30Zhenzhen

XieKent Jensen

Shall an Entrepreneur Choose Business Idea Source to

Match his/her Background? The Contingent Role of

Institutional Environment

14:30 - 15:00Jingjing

Guo

Shahamak

Rezaei

User interaction and new venture growth: the

mediating role of new product development

15:00 - 15:30

Chair:

Anthony

ArundelKent Jensen Can Huang

Early coupling of export-, innovation-, and growth

aspirations: Embedded in nascent entrepreneurs’

networks and institutions

15:30 - 16:00

16:00 - 16:30

Innovation

and

Globalization

Jun JinOlav

Sorensen

How Overseas R&D Centre to Maximize the Benefits

after cross-board M&A: Case of CEVT of Geely

Group

17:00 - 17:30Chair:

Can Huang

Jianghua

Zhou

Zhenzhen

XieExporting, foreign equity and firm innovation

TIME SESSION CHAIR Presentor Title

16:30 - 17:00Keynote

SpeechesCan Huang Jiang Yu Digital Innovation under Chinese Context

Keynote

SpeechesCan Huang

Innovation

and

Entrepreneur

ship

Have a nice first CICALICS Workshop day !

CICALICS WORKSHOP (August 26-27, 2017) PROGRAM

Room 418, Shunde Building, Tsinghua University SEM

Registration of CICALICS Workshop, Outside of Room 418,

Shunde Building,Tsinghua University

Coffee Break

LUNCH

Jizhen LiKeynote

Speeches

Aug. 26,

2017

Saturday

Coffee Break

CICALICS WORKSHOP (August 26-27, 2017) PROGRAM

Room 418, Shunde Building, Tsinghua University SEM

DATE TIME SESSION CHAIR Presentor Title

Jason Gao Qooco Entrepreneur journey and China strategy

David

Topolewski Qooco global strategy and future rollout planning

Victoria MuQooco products/technologies entry barrier and Scale

globally

10:00 - 10:30

10:30 - 10:50

10:50 - 11:30Company

PresentationJizhen LI

Chen

ZhaoThe Ultimate Global Innovation Platform

11:30 - 12:00

12:00 - 13:30

TIME SESSION Presentor Discussant Title

13:30 - 14:00 Xiao Chen Bohao Li

How Do Innovation Capabilities of Industrial Cluster

Evolve in the Context of E-Commerce?: A Case Study

from China

14:00 - 14:30Peder Veng

SøbergShulin Gu Technical Knowledge Creation

14:30 - 15:00

Chair:

Jun Jin Bohao LIAnthony

Arundel

A Review Paper for Measuring Design as the Indicator

of Innovation and Structural Transformation: The

Middle-income Trap Perspective

15:00 - 15:30

15:30 - 16:00 Wei GaoJianghua

Zhou

Absorptive Capacity, Cooperation Stability and the

Effect of Innovation Policies: A Case Study of the

Wind Power Industry in China

16:00 - 16:30Po-Hsuan

ChenJun Jin

The evolution of universities in Taiwan’s system of

innovation (1986-2015): the co-patent analysis

16:30 - 17:00Chair:

Shulin GuJunguang

GaoKou Kou

Business collaboration benefiting innovation in small

enterprises

TIME SESSION CHAIR Presentor Title

17:00 - 17:30Keynote

Speeches Shulin Gu

Xiangdong

ChenPatent value

17:30 - 18:00

Innovation

Policy and

System

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

LUNCH

Innovation

and

Capabilities

Company

Presentation

Comments from Jason Gao and Q&A

9:00 - 10:00

Comments from Chen Zhao and Q&A

Jizhen Li

CICALICS Closing Ceremony

Aug. 27,

2017

Sunday

President of the Organising Committee

JIN CHEN, professor of Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and

Strategy in Tsinghua School of Economics and Management. He is also the

Director of Research Center for Technological Innovation, Tsinghua University.

He received his Bachelor from Zhejiang University in 1989; and Ph.D. in

Management Engineering in the Department of Management also from Zhejiang

University in 1994. He went to MIT Sloan School of Management in 1998 as a

visiting scholar. In 2000, he went to SPRU of Sussex University as a visiting fellow.

Prof. CHEN Jin has been awarded the Outstanding Youth Fund in 2002 by National

Science Foundation of China. In 2009, he was selected for the China’s National

Talents Project. In 2014, he was honored as a distinguished professor of Chang

Jiang scholars, and actually he is the first Chang Jiang scholar in the field of

China’s technological innovation management. His research and teaching mainly

focuses on management of technological innovation.

Prof. CHEN Jin is the editor-in-chief of International Journal of Innovation Studies.

He also serves as the member of editor committee of lot of Journals

Vice-president of the Organising Committee

Jizhen Li, associate Professor of Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship

and Strategy in Tsinghua School of Economics and Management. He is also the

Vice Director of Research Center for Technological Innovation, Tsinghua University

Jizhen holds a PhD(2002) in Management Science, a MA in Management Science,

and BE(1997) both in Automobile Engineering and Industrial Engineering from the

Tsinghua University. He visited MIT Sloan School of Management as an

International Faculty Fellow for half a year in 2006.

His research interests include management of technological innovation, science &

technology policy, project management, and SMEs Innovation and

Entrepreneurship.

As Principal Investigator, he has finished or is working on more than 20 research

projects, include six research projects funded by NSF of China. He has published

more than 80 journal articles (mainly in Chinese).

Keynote Speakers

Shulin GU, Research Professor at the Institute of Science and Development

Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

She serves also as Advisory Professor at Tsinghua University and Zhejiang

University. In international academic sphere she has had been Globelics (The

Global Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation and Competence

Building System) Scientific) Board member and now is GLOBELICS Constitution

Committee member. She is also as advisory board member of several international

academic journals. She had worked as Senior Research Fellow at UNU/INTECH

(United Nations University Institute for New Technologies, now UNU/MERIT,

Maastricht, the Netherlands) (1992—2000), and served as a Visiting Professor,

School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University(2000-2007).

Her research areas include: S&T policy, S&T system reform in China, innovation

and development studies, innovation policy, institutional change, inclusive and

“green” innovation.

Wesley Sine，Professor of management and organizations at Johnson

Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. He is also the Founding

Director of Cornell Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

His research focuses on the emergence of new economic sectors and

entrepreneurship. His research context includes the United States, Latin America,

and the Middle East. He explores issues related to institutional change, industry

and technology evolution, technology entrepreneurship, and new venture structure

and strategy. He has examined a diverse set of economic sectors ranging from the

electric power industry to the emergence of the Internet. Teaching interests include

entrepreneurship, commercializing university technology, new venture growth, the

management of technology and innovation, and organizational change. He has

consulted and taught executives in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.

Prof. Sine has published, provisionally accepted, or papers forthcoming in the

following journals: Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management

Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management

Journal, and Research Policy. Sine is currently a senior editor at Organization

Science and is the book review editor at Administrative Science Quarterly.

Can Huang, Professor, Head of Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship

and Strategy, and Co-Director of Institute for Intellectual Property Management at

School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

He is a member of the Chinese expert group of the U.S.-China Innovation Dialogue

under the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, a member of advisory

board of Research Center for Technological Innovation, Tsinghua University,

CIPRUN Intellectual Property Management Research Center, University of

Electronic Science and Technology of China, and the Asia Pacific Innovation

Conference. He is also a member of the editorial advisory boards of Science and

Public Policy, NTUT Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Management, African

Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, Science and

Management (KeXue Yu Guan Li) and UNESCO Science Report (2015 Edition).

Earlier from 2007 to 2013 he was a Research Fellow and subsequently a Senior

Research Fellow at United Nations University-MERIT, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Management from the University of Aveiro, Aveiro,

Portugal, an M.S. in Engineering and a B.A. in Economics from Renmin University

of China, Beijing, China. He was a visiting research fellow at the Technology Policy

and Assessment Center, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology,

Atlanta, the United States in 2006. After studying and working in Europe and the

United States for 11 years, he returned to China to join Zhejiang University in

September 2013.

Anthony Arundel, Professor of Innovation at the Australian Innovation

Research Centre (AIRC) at the University of Tasmania and concurrently a

Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT, a joint research institute of the United Nations

University and the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. His research

interests include the innovative activities of firms and public administrative

agencies, the transfer of knowledge between universities and firms, the

socioeconomics of biotechnology, environmental innovation, innovation policy, and

the development of indicators for measuring innovation. He has been involved in

the design and statistical analysis of several largescale questionnaire surveys

including the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) in Europe, several European

Innobarometer surveys, the Australian Public Sector Innovation Indicators (APSII)

survey and the Tasmanian Innovation Census. Recent research has focused on

innovation in the public sector and on the use of innovation survey data for

economic development purposes in regional Australia.

Olav Jull Sørensen, Professor of International Business at Aalborg University

since 1991 and Head of the International Business Centre (IBC) since its

establishment in 1984.

His main research interests are: the internationalisation of companies,

international/global industrial dynamics and value chains, internationalisation and

innovation and governmentbusiness partnership. The topics are being researched

in a developed market perspective as well as a developing/transition country

perspective. He has been a lead scholar in research, capacity building and

educational projects in Africa (Ghana and Tanzania), Eastern Europe (Lithuania

and Russia), and Asia (Vietnam and China).

He is a member of the Academic Council for Social Sciences, Aalborg University

and the Council of the Department of Business and Management, and from 2010

to 2015, he has been the co-director of the Sino-Danish Center (SDC)-Innovation

Management program in China comprising a graduate program, a research

program as well as collaboration with the business community in China.

Jiang Yu， Professor of School of Policy and Management, University of Chinese

Academy of Sciences(UCAS) . He is also the Professor of Institutes of Sciences

and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Yu is also the Director of

Research Center of Network Innovation and Development, UCAS.

Prof. Yu has worked as the Royal Society International Fellow in Cambridge

University. His main research interest is science policy, digital innovation, industry

evolution and innovation.

Prof. Yu has got the international funding programs from EU-7th Framework project

and Sino-US. innovation collaboration project. He is China’s core expert for EU-

China Innovation Summit and Sino-Germany Innovation Dialogue during 2014-

2017. He has undertaken many strategic research projects for the central

government agencies like MOST, NDRC and SAAC. He also got the Best Paper

Award in IAMOT(International Association for Management of Technology) 2006

Conference.

http://www.iamot.org/

Qooco （巧口） is the leading China-centred global mobile education firm focused on solving the widespread

problem of lots of time spent learning English, but getting no results. The cause of this problem? Less than daily

practice and inadequate feedback. Through Qooco’s proprietary interactive speech analytics and AI technologies,

Qooco has successfully delivered great learner results – spoken English fluency - throughout Asia, a first for a China-

based company.

For thousands of learners, Qooco has consistently delivered superior outcomes more quickly and at far lower costs

than others. Demanding luxury service brands, such as Mandarin Oriental and Four Seasons, insist on using Qooco

for employee assessment and training.

With deep experience in linguistics and speech technologies, Qooco has developed the most advanced speech

technologies for spoken English language learning. Combine that with gamification and huge amounts of data for

AI, Qooco has a powerful adaptive learning platform. Together with certified US English teachers available on

demand, Qooco provides a highly engaging experience, driving long term usage, which is critical for successful

language learning.

Qooco’s mix of B2B2C and B2C is complementary, resulting in improved financial performance and more customer

leads for enterprise customers and superior student outcomes, at a cost that is affordable in tier 5 cities.

A game-changer.

Dr. Jason Gao, Chairman of Qooco China. In the last seven years, Dr. Gao has

focused on building the Qooco China business, strategy, and teams. Dr. Gao has

extensive experience in software development as well. Dr. Gao earned his MS

and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Brigham Young University and BS in Industry

Management Engineering, Tongji University in Shanghai.

David Topolewskiis, CEO of Qooco, where he is responsible for business

development, technology development, and strategy. A strong proponent of m-

learning, Mr. Topolewski has pursued the development of blended learning

solutions, combining technology and teachers, to reach the underserved and

provide new life opportunities through education. He has worked at numerous

technology, design, and investment banking firms. Mr. Topolewski earned his BA

in Economics at Yale University and his MBA at the Wharton School, at the

University of Pennsylvania.

Victoria Mu, President and CTO. With over fifteen years of software

development experience in delivering commercial applications and solutions to the

market, Ms. Mu has responsibility for Qooco product development. She has worked

at IBM, Ticketmaster, and other tech companies. Ms. Mu earned her BS at TongJi

University in Shanghai and her MS at Brigham Young University.

Chen Zhao

Managing Partner (China CEO)

Chen is currently spearheading Plug and Play Tech Center's startup accelerator

and investment initiatives in China. He manages a team that are specialized in both

growing local technology startups and helping cutting edge global companies enter

into and expand their businesses in China market. Since 2013, Plug and Play

China has been in operation in 8 cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou,

Zhengzhou, Xi’an, Chongqing and Shenzhen), and Chen’s led and participated in

investment and cross-border acceleration of over 60 startups in both China and the

U.S., including Intviu.com, Xberts.com, iDareX.com, Vocore.io, Lepow, Acton,

Kadho, Crazybaby, etc. Prior to Plug and Play, Chen worked as the team lead and

Sr. Software Engineer at Investment Technology Group (NYSE:ITG), where he led

a development team in designing and implementing various Equity and Foreign

Exchange trading analytics applications for institutional investment firms. Chen

holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management, MS from USC and BS

from Beihang University in Computer Science.

Xiangdong CHEN, professor at the School of Economics and Management,

Beihang University, Beijing, China,

In the fields of international technology transfer and innovation studies, he teaches

subjects in recent years include international economics, international finance,

international business management, international technology transfer, and

innovation management; his major research fields in recent years are in Intellectual

Property Management, patent evaluation, patent based emerging technologies,

university-industrial technology transfer, and regional as well as national innovation

system.

He got his doctor degree on Economics and Social Science, from Dept. of Social

Science, University of Potsdam, Germany. He is also a Visiting Scholar at

Manchester Business School, UK. 1992-1993; Visiting Professor at Nante

Graduate School of Management, France. 1999；Visiting Professor at University

of Potsdam, Germany; 2001, 2009; Visiting Research Fellow at City University of

Hong Kong, China, 2003, 2004, 2009; Visiting Professor at NISTEP, Japan; 2006;

Visiting Professor at KIEP, Korea. 2007

Professor Chen was invited as Keynote Speaker at numbers of international

conferences and workshops in USA, Germany, Canada, Netherland, United

Kingdom, Brazil, Finland, Sweden, Japan, Korea, and China.

Papers Abstract

User interaction and new venture growth: the mediating role of

new product development

Sustainable innovation activities often do not stand alone; they sometimes require interdependent innovations on the

part of other actors within the innovation ecosystem (Adner, 2006; Adner & Kapoor, 2010; Still et al, 2014). Users can be

included as one important part of the innovation ecosystem. When involving users in the innovation process, firms are able

to articulate sticky and difficult-to-transfer customer needs into concrete product specifications (Kaplan & Haenlein, 2006;

von Hippel, 2001), which further enhance their profitability and growth. For new ventures, interacting jointly with users

can channel their energies towards efficient and speedy innovation decision making (Lumpkin & Dess, 1995) and

overcome the liability of newness (Stinchcombe, 1965). Considering the importance of user interaction for new venture

growth, one key research question then is as follows: how user interaction affects new venture growth?

Despite the increasing significance, this issue has not been sufficiently addressed within existing research thus far.

First, prior research on user interaction is mainly set in the context of dominant firms or established firms (Gawer &

Cusumano, 2002; Hienerth et al., 2014; Iansiti & Levien, 2004; Foss et al., 2011; Lilien et al. 2002; Urban & von Hippel,

1988). However, little academic research has focused on user interaction undertaken by new ventures, of which user

interaction pattern might be quite different. Dominant firms or established firms have more sufficient organization slack

to support their indigenous innovation and growth (Guo et al., 2015); whereas new ventures have limited and often

specialized assets and resources (Larraneta et al., 2012), and they may interact with users more actively to create innovative

products and services. Besides, new ventures do not possess complex and multiple product lines as dominant firms or

established firms have, they will provide a relatively pure context to connect the links between pre-commercialization

engagement and commercialization outcome (Clarysse et al., 2014; Heirman & Clarysse, 2007). Second, there is still much

work to be conducted to explore how user interaction affect firm growth in a more integrated and systematic way (Gemser

& Perks, 2015). On one hand, we argue that previous focus on bilateral interactions between users and firms should be

shifted toward exploring joint interaction with different types of users and investigating the distinct extent of user

involvement during innovation process. On the other hand, referring to Knudsen (2007) and von Hippel (2001), we

demonstrate that new product development plays a prominent mediating role between the relationship of user interaction

and new venture growth.

To bridge these gaps, we demonstrate how user interaction affects new venture growth through new product

development. To be specific, we focus on two components of user interaction: the breadth and the depth. Similar to Laursen

& Salter (2006), the breadth of user interaction is defined as the number of different types of users involving in the

interaction process of solving problems collectively, while the depth of user interaction refers to the extent to which users

are deeply engaged in firms’ innovation process. Together these two variables reflect the openness of firms’ interactions

with users. We assert that when both the breadth and the depth of user interaction functions effectively, new ventures will

be able to enhance the number of new product development and the speed of new product development, and further

improve growth performance.

This paper makes a contribution through investigating the openness of user interactions on the basis of breadth and

depth dimensions, and this categorization can help fully capture how user interaction exerts distinctive influence on new

ventures growth. Besides, through demonstrating the mediating role of new product development between user interaction

and new venture growth, this study sheds light on the value capture mechanism of new ventures (Moore, 1996; Iansiti &

Levien, 2004; Adner, 2006; Ritala et al., 2013).

Early coupling of export-, innovation-, and growth aspirations: Embedded in nascent

entrepreneurs’ networks and institutions

Abstract

Global business goes hand in hand with innovation and growth, frequently. These pursuits are often

created jointly during start-up of a business, expectedly, and they may be embedded in networks. The

purpose is to account for how transnational and local networks around entrepreneurs are enhancing and

constraining the early coupling of export, innovation and growth-aspirations, and how the coupling of

these aspirations is further embedded in institutions in society. The question is addressed with a globally

representative sample of entrepreneurs, surveyed for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Efforts to

export, to innovate and to grow are found to be created together, often already during conception of

businesses, with a coupling that is loose rather than tight. This coupling is promoted by entrepreneurial

networking in the transnational sphere and in the sphere of business operations, but is diminished by

networking in the private sphere. The coupling is further embedded in institutions in society. The quality

of institutions promotes an early coupling among entrepreneurs’ export, innovation and growth

aspirations, and enhances the benefits of transnational and operational networks, but aggravates the

detriment of private sphere networking for a strong coupling.

Exporting, Foreign Equity and Firm Innovation

This study focuses on the effect of foreign equity and exporting on a focal firm’s innovation performance,

as well as the moderating effects of state ownership and innovation capability. We find that the foreign

equity has a J-curved impact on firms’ innovation performance, while exporting has a positive linear

effect on firm’s innovation performance. We also find evidence that in such an international innovation

projects, the state ownership and innovation capability of a firm can positively moderate the foreign

equity/exporting performance relationships.

Innovation performance

Exporting

Innovation capability

State ownership

Foreignequity

Conceptual Framework and Research Model

How Do Innovation Capabilities of Industrial Cluster Evolve in the

Context of E-Commerce?: A Case Study from China

Abstract

The amount of e-commerce conducted has grown exponentially as the development of internet. So far,

some studies focus on the impacts of e-commerce on competitiveness on the level of enterprises.

However, many researchers pay little attention to this topic on the industrial clusters level. The

mechanisms between development of e-commerce and industrial clusters have not been discovered yet.

As vital sources of national competiveness, industrial clusters play a pivotal role in the development of

industry. In the context of e-commerce, some clusters can leverage the openness, ease of use, and

transactional efficiencies it brings about to improve their innovation capabilities and subsequently

improve the competitiveness. But some don’t gain advantages from it. Because the fact that knowledge

spillover and the motive of imitation, enterprises in industrial cluster has a high risk of product

homogeneity and intense price competition. In the long run, their innovation capabilities may be

impaired.

This paper explores how different industrial clusters confront the new conditions and how their

innovation capabilities evolve in the context of e-commerce using case from China.

Absorptive Capacity, Cooperation Stability and the Effect of Innovation Policies:

A Case Study of the Wind Power Industry in China

Abstract

Establishing appropriate policies to promote stable cooperation in the area of open innovation policy

constitutes an urgent problem for both current theoretical research. Moreover, practical operation in this

field. The absorption ability, cooperation frequency and technology value of an enterprise directly influence

the choice of partners, thereby affecting the stability of cooperation. By constructing a dynamic game model

and taking policy into consideration, this paper analyzes the influence of absorptive capacity, cooperation

frequency and technology value factors on cooperation stability and detects the role and effect of the policy

on the innovation process by introduction of stochastic simulation. Only when the value of absorptive

capability and technology exceeds a certain threshold, can policy funding improve the probability of

positive cooperation behavior of enterprises, otherwise it will exacerbate non-cooperative behavior. By

reducing the subjectivity of the test process and objectively presenting random process, this study provides

a valid theoretical basis for the selection of open innovation policy tools and action points.

The evolution of universities in Taiwan’s system of innovation (1986-2015):

the co-patent analysis

Abstract

This paper examines the co-evolutions among institutions, triple-helix interactions, and performance in

Taiwan’s system of innovation over last three decades. Especially, it focuses on the co-evolution between

institutions and university-centric triple-helix interactions. Based on dataset of the university co-patents

granted in the 1986-2015 USPTO, the evolution of university-centric interactions in Taiwan’s system of

innovation is investigated. The paper further utilized the patent analysis and network analysis to

demonstrate interactions among universities, industries, and research institutes. The results not only

demonstrate the coevolution among university, industry, and research institute within Taiwan’s system of

innovation, but also show the impact of triple-helix interactions on the transformation of industrial and

technological development. The paper concludes that the Taiwanese universities have gradually

transformed from the loose-coupled, interactive to dense network-typed systemic interactions during the

past three decades, and the triple-helix interactions co-evolve with industrial transformation in Taiwan’s

innovation system. Some managerial and policy implications are provided.

Business collaboration benefiting innovation in small enterprises:

China compared to Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria and Thailand

Abstract

Purpose. – Innovation in society benefits from collaboration among the participants in the national

innovation system (NIS), notably the firms. Indeed, an ongoing institutional change in the NIS is the

promotion of collaboration. The question is whether the benefit of collaboration for innovation of

small enterprises in China is typical or exceptionally different from other developing countries.

Research design and data. – China is compared to Brazil, Indonesia, Thailand and Nigeria, where

comparable and large surveys have recently been performed by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor,

with measures of business collaboration and innovation, amenable to hierarchical linear modeling,

with direct effect of collaboration on innovation, moderated by country, so as to discern differences in

benefit.

Findings. – The benefit of collaboration for innovation of small firms in China is found to be

negligible, like in Brazil and Indonesia, whereas the benefit is substantial in Thailand and in Nigeria.

The benefit is interpreted as resulting from quality of institutions, which is associated with wealth in a

society.

Contributions. – The findings contribute to understanding collaboration as a systemic property

benefiting innovation of small firms in society, with an embeddedness in institutions that moderates

the benefit, in China and in other developing countries.

Research Centre for Technological Innovation, Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University Research Centre for Technological Innovation (RCTI) was founded in March 2000,

developed out of the major-subject of Management of Technological Economics, Tsinghua University,

headed by Professor Emeritus Jiaji Fu, who is one of the forerunners in conducting research on

technological innovation. In 2004, RCTI was conferred as Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social

Science in Universities by Ministry of Education. The current director of RCTI is Professor Chen Jin.

From 2007 to 2016, based on major real problems on China’s Innovation and Development, RCTI aimed

at the international forefront of discipline, conducted a number of high level scientific researches and

obtained a series of remarkable achievements. The researchers in RCTI have undertook more than 50

projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, 17 key Projects of Key Research Institute

of Humanities and Social Science in Universities by Ministry of Education, and have already published

1500 papers in total, and more than 90 books.

RCTI has cooperated with several famous research in globe, e.g. SPRU (Science Policy Research Unit,

University of Sussex, UK), The Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), and well-known

enterprises, e.g. CRRC Corporation, Haier Group, Midea Group.

The vision of RCTI is to further enhance academic research standards while keep innovate current

institutional system in order to become a world first-rate research institution and think tank which has

influential academic papers in internationally authoritative academic journals. RCTI will construct long-

term institutionalized cooperation with internal research institutions for top of the class scientific

collaborations to produce ground-breaking research outcomes that is influential to both the country and

outside world. RCTI aims to assist in critical governmental decision making process and give our research

results as a form of support, and also to provide guidance to corporations in their practice of innovation

management to generate both social and economic benefits.