Science Research Management ›› 2025, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (2): 73-85.DOI: 10.19571/j.cnki.1000-2995.2025.02.008

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Research on the construction path of IUR innovation consortium in the context of Chinese modernization

Zhang Yufei1,2, Liu Bing1,3, Yuan Changhong4, Zhang Shuman5   

  1. 1. School of Business Administration, Hebei University of Economics and Business, Shijiazhuang 050061, Hebei, China;
    2. Research Centre for Science Technology and Innovation Policy, Hebei University of Economics and Business, Shijiazhuang 050061, Hebei, China;
    3. Hebei Collaborative Innovation Center for Urban-Rural Integrated Development, Shijiazhuang 050061, Hebei, China;
    4. School of Management, Xi′an Jiaotong University, Xi′an 710049, Shaanxi, China;
    5. School of Business Administration, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, Zhejiang, China
  • Received:2023-08-09 Revised:2024-09-12 Online:2025-02-20 Published:2025-02-11

Abstract:     Industry-university-research (IUR) innovation consortium represents the latest endeavor to establish Chinese IUR deep integrated technological innovation system. However, current efforts in constructing IUR innovation consortia confront considerable challenges, including unclear organizational models, outdated institutional mechanisms, and unknown construction paths. In view of the prevailing circumstances, this paper employed a multi-case study methodology, selected four representative cases of government-led IUR innovation consortium, university-led IUR innovation consortium, research-institute-led IUR innovation consortium, and enterprise-led IUR innovation consortium as research subjects, and analyzed thoroughly the organizational mode innovation and institutional mechanism innovation within four IUR innovation consortia, finally deriving a comprehensive construction path model for IUR innovation consortia. The research findings revealed that constructing IUR innovation consortia should be led by leading organizations with active participation of upstream and downstream enterprises, universities and research institutes, guided by government strategic requirements, motivated by market demands, and bound together by common interests. Constructing IUR innovation consortia also needs to implement a series of organizational mode innovations to overcome innovation barriers, undertake a series of institutional mechanism innovations to break innovation bottlenecks, and effectively integrate diverse innovation entities and elements within the innovation chain and industrial chain, ultimately enhancing overall innovation efficiency. This paper has concluded comprehensive theoretical explanations from "what to build" to "how to build" and then to "how to manage" IUR innovation consortia, thereby developing Chinese localized research IUR and innovation consortia and offering valuable insights into practices of constructing IUR innovation consortia in the context of Chinese modernization.

Key words: IUR innovation consortium, construction path, organizational mode innovation, institutional mechanism innovation, multi-case study