Innovation policies and mechanisms: Evidences from four industries in China

Abstract

Abstract: The mainstream innovation theory cannot make reasonable explanations to the particular phenomenon that China's industries are large in scale but weak in innovation capabilities. Domestic academics pay little attention to integration in innovation policies and mechanisms. On this background, this research explores and establishes the theory of innovation policies and mechanisms based on the perspective of sectoral system of innovation by employing the method of multi-case study based on building a theory as the goal and byassisting with statistical analysis method. We select automobile, household appliances, aerospace and computer as case study industries, and collect large sample data to test hypotheses we built. Our findings show that: innovation policy has a positive effect on innovation, of which the government procurement policy has the largest positive impact on innovation; innovation policy has a positive effect on innovation mechanism, and this effect on incentive mechanism is more significant than on operational mechanism; and innovation mechanism also has a positive effect on innovation, and the role of incentive mechanism is more important than operational mechanism, while the impact of material incentive is larger than non-material incentive.

Key words: innovation policy, mechanism, sectoral system of innovation, multi-case study

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Wang Gang, Li Xianjun, Zhang Bowen, Meng Donghui, Gao Ge. Innovation policies and mechanisms: Evidences from four industries in China[J]. Science Research Management, 2015, 36(4): 1-10.

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