중국의 산학협력 과학기술 연구 분석 SCI 학술지 게재 논문을 대상으로

Abstract

This study analyzes China’s university-firm research collaboration in terms of the distribution across various scientific research fields (macro level analysis), the structure of intra- and inter-national networks (meso level analysis), and the characteristics of key participants from both academic and business sides (miro level analysis). For this, I collected relevant data from the Web of Science DB which contains bibliographic information about research papers published in SCI-indexed journals, and conducted quantitative analyses. Moreover, in order to gain more concrete understandings of the cognition and behavior of the Chinese universities and industrial firms participating in university-firm collaborative research, I conducted a series of interviews with key scientists in selected few institutions in China. The research results show that China is distinct from the global average in terms of the main fields where university-firm research collaboration occur, which indicates the Chinese uniqueness. However, the difference has gradually diminished as time goes by. I also found that the Chinese research universities lead the international research collaboration while the special purpose universities play an important role in research collaboration with domestic firms. The Chinese firms that participate in research collaboration with academia seem to have not only increased in number but also expanded in scope including private firms in medium- and low-tech industrial sectors.