Basic research intensity and diversified performance: the moderating role of government support intensity
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Basic research intensity and diversified performance: the moderating role of government support intensity Qinghua Xia1 · Qinwei Cao1 · Manqing Tan1 Received: 15 February 2020 © Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary 2020
Abstract The relationship between basic research intensity and diversified performance is a very important problem that has not theoretically answered. Based on the panel data of universities directly under the ministry of education, considering the three missions of the university and the typical characteristics of basic research, we subdivide the diversified performance into innovation performance, economic performance, social performance and international cooperation performance. We find that enhancing the intensity of basic research can increase the number of patent applications and invention patent applications, but cannot increase the total number of paper publications and the number of English paper publications. Meanwhile, improving basic research intensity does not necessarily promote economic performance, while the promotion effect on social performance needs a lag period of 1 year. Furthermore, enhancing basic research intensity does not necessarily significantly improve international cooperation performance, and even has a significant negative impact after lagged 2 periods. Finally, government support intensity only plays a moderating role between basic research intensity and innovation performance, but not between basic research intensity and other types of performance. This reveals that the government plays a key role in the stage of knowledge production, but its role in the stage of knowledge transformation is relatively limited. Keywords Basic research · Government support · Innovation performance · Economic performance · Social performance · International cooperation performance · Chinese universities
* Qinwei Cao [email protected] Qinghua Xia [email protected] Manqing Tan [email protected] 1
School of Economics and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, China
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Introduction China rank first in the number of researchers and second in the total amount of R&D fund investment in the world, and has the second largest number of international S&T paper publications, the second most cited papers and the largest invention patent applications, etc. These series of statistical data revealed that China’s R&D investment has achieved good results both on the aspects of quantity and quality. However, with the outbreak of the trade war between China and the United States (U.S), ZTE, the top ten communication equipment manufacturers and the fourth largest mobile phone manufacturers in the world, still unable to maintain normal operations on account of the U.S. department of commerce sales ban, and have to restructure its management and accept heavy fines. These reflects that Chinese international S&T competitiveness is not as dazzling as the statistics suggested. Meanwhile, many scholars attribute the paradox between statistical data and
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