Research On Independent Innovation Of Shanghai Biotechnology Clusters

Under the background of continuous deepening of economic globalization in recent years, economic regionalization has also been intensified with industrial innovation as its main feature. Countries all over the world are now taking the development of industry cluster as the important measure of strengthening its economic and technological competitiveness. Industrial cluster has also drawn attention of the international theoretical circles to carry out researches and exchanges. The 21st century is the era of life science, biotech has become the key point of modern S & T research and development, and is playing an increasingly important role in the improvement of human health, living environment, and the increase of agricultural and industrial production and quality. Successful cases of the developed countries manifests that, for enterprises of the biotech industry, industry cluster development model, which is featured by the closeness in geographical space and the cooperation and division of labor between companies, has facilitated the rapid development of local biotech industry to a large extent. Since the beginning of the 21st century, bio-industry cluster in Shanghai has grown by leaps and bounds, with a certain degree of international competitiveness. This paper mainly deals with the following questions:What is the innovation mechanism of industry cluster?What is the current situation of Shanghai biotech industry cluster and independent innovation?Has the biotech industry cluster in Shanghai facilitated industry's independent innovation? How to evaluate its effect?How does the industrial innovation of Shanghai biotech industry cluster play in role?What could be the strategic suggestions?This paper is divided into eight chapters.Chapter 1 is the introduction of the research background, purpose, method, framework, major creative points and the comprehensive description of relative literatures. The 2nd chapter is the theoretical foundation of this paper. It explains the evolution of Industry Cluster theory, the development of independent innovation theory and the research perspective of industry cluster innovation. Chapter 2 also makes special analysis on the mechanism of industry cluster innovation. Chapter 3 introduces the quantitative method adopted in this paper. It first describes indicators and methods of identifying industry geographic concentration, industrial clustering and industrial cluster; and then discusses the pros and cons of the common indicators for evaluating technical innovation and cluster independent innovation. Finally Chapter 3 gives an introduction to the statistical method adopted in the following empirical part. Chapter 4 is an analysis of the current status of biotech industry cluster and independent innovation in Shanghai. It first discusses the current situation of the development of Shanghai biotech industry, and then analyzes the trend of biotech industry cluster; finally it describes the development of industrial innovation of biotech industry in Shanghai.Chapter 5, 6, 7 is the key parts and where the creative points lie. Chapter 5 analyzes the effect industry cluster has on the industry innovation of Shanghai biotech industry. Firstly it analyzes the impact of clusters on independent innovation of Shanghai biotech industry. It points out in particular that the bio-industry cluster has provided a platform to carry out knowledge-intensive service activities, which stimulates outsourcing services, and thus promoted the innovation level of biotech industry in shanghai. Then it makes quantitative analysis on the position Shanghai biotech industry cluster and innovation level takes in the country based on statistical data. It also makes evaluation by using the 17 indicators that reflect industry innovation capacity. Finally, it comes to the conclusion that the development of Shanghai Pudong biotech cluster has played a positive role in industry innovation and has statistical meanings. Chapter 6 is the empirical part. Firstly it introduces the developing overview of biotech industry in Pudong Zhangjiang, and then proposes 6 assumptions on the internal mechanism of cluster independent innovation based on the micro- mechanism of promoting cluster innovation-- Collaborative Learning Theory in the second chapter. It tests the working path of industry cluster independent innovation at the micro-level through surveys and interviews on the innovation of Pudong biotech industry cluster. Under the premise of the conclusions in previous chapters and in combination of the problems existed in industry innovation, chapter 7 proposes strategic suggestions on further strengthening the effect of cluster independent innovation to facilitate independent innovation of Shanghai biotech industry cluster.Chapter 8 is conclusions and outlook. It summarizes all the analysis and puts forward deficiencies and direction on future research.The creative points of this paper are: (1) Qualitative analysis on the impact of industry cluster on industry innovation of Shanghai biotech industry cluster. (2) Quantitative analysis on the position Shanghai biotech industry cluster and innovation level takes in the country based on statistical data of the yearbook. Quantitative analysis on the impact industry cluster has on industry innovation and comes to the conclusion that the development of Shanghai Pudong biotech cluster has played a positive role in industrial innovation and has statistical meanings. (3) Carry out surveys on Shanghai Zhanjiang biotech industry cluster to test the working paths of the core of industry cluster independent innovation--Collaborative Learning. (4) Proposes strategic suggestions on promoting independent innovation of Shanghai biotech industry cluster.