Strengthen Basic Research Capacity of Enterprises and Make Up for Shortcoming of National Innovation System

Authors

Xielin LIU, School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; School of Entrepreneurship and Management, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, ChinaFollow
Xinzhi CHANG, School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, ChinaFollow
Peipei YANG, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Karlsruhe 76139, Germany

Keywords

basic research, firm innovation, demand-driven, scientific subject, national innovation system

Document Type

Strategy & Policy Decision Research

Abstract

Basic research is the source of technological innovation, and currently, public research entities are the main force behind basic research. However, demand-driven research in the Pasteur quadrant and Edison quadrant requires firms to play a major role. The experience of the United States has shown that large firms can directly bridge the gap between science and industrial demand, improve industrial competitiveness, and the key lies in improving their scientific capabilities. Encouraging large firms to invest in demand-driven basic research can accelerate the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, increase the industrialization of basic research, and fill the demand-side gap in China’s innovation system. Therefore, the government should encourage large firms to become new forces in basic research from multiple dimensions, enhance the international market competitiveness of Chinese firms, and truly achieve technological self- reliance and self-strengthening.

First page

853

Last Page

862

Language

Chinese

Publisher

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Recommended Citation

LIU, Xielin; CHANG, Xinzhi; and YANG, Peipei (2023) "Strengthen Basic Research Capacity of Enterprises and Make Up for Shortcoming of National Innovation System," Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version): Vol. 38 : Iss. 6 , Article 26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.16418/j.issn.1000-3045.20230101004
Available at: https://bulletinofcas.researchcommons.org/journal/vol38/iss6/26