Research On Design Strategies Of Collaborative Innovation Space Of Research University

In the background of knowledge economy and a time calls for innovation, to construct aninnovative country has become an important strategy in national polices. Being the mainsubject of innovative research and regional innovation system, research universities areplaying a crucial role in innovating knowledge and incubating experts. Accompany with theaim raised by the Nation of building a certain amount of high quality research universities andencouraging collaborative innovation among such institutes, universities have paid moreattention on improving the ability of innovation and scientific research as to achieve such goal.Although innovation and research are two hot issues that are greatly concerned by theuniversities’ management, they are still the blind spots of designers and builders. Little studywas carried out on the characteristics of research universities and innovation activities incampus, and it has resulted in that the theoretical guidance is far behind the construction needsof building research universities.This article is doing an interdisciplinary study to integrate the theory of innovativeresearch with planning and architectural design, starting with the practical requirementsmentioned above and also learning from collaborative innovation and studying the functions ofresearch universities in innovation and scientific research. In order to give answers to what theinnovative and research university is and how to design a campus for such university, thisarticle makes analysis in terms of the city, campus and architecture by statistics, case study andtheoretical conclusions based on the first hand resources of almost40newly built cases inChina and several international cases related to research universities and innovation.This article is divided into three major parts:1．Questioning and Forming the Theoretical Structure (Chapter One, Two andThree)First of all, in view of the construction situations of domestic universities, this part pointsout that the lack of studies on characteristic of innovation and research universities and theirrequirements has greatly restricted the development of such universities currently. Secondly,with the analysis of development procedures of both national and international research universities, to find out the dominant element of promoting campus development and thedirection under the background of innovative society. Lastly, from collaborative innovationpoint of view, theories of multiple disciplines and the advanced theory of campus design areintroduced to form the theoretical base of the article. At the mean time, according to thehierarchical structure of collaborative innovation system, the design goal and strategicframework are elaborated from the aspects of regional innovation system, innovative networkin campus and the innovative organization of research team.2.Analysis and Case Studies (Chapter Four, Five and Six)This part has comprehensively analyzed the relationship between the innovative andresearch activity of the research university and the problems shown in the existing campusconstruction. By learning different cases, it is thoroughly discussed from three levels toexplore the design strategy of improving the development of research universities on theirinnovation and research functions. To start with, from the zoning design point of view, urbanzoning, function planning and the interfaces of campus are studied so as to create a widelyconnected and open environment that benefits the collaborative innovation relations betweenthe research universities and other innovation institutes in the city. Secondly, the discussion ismainly on the planning design aspect. A campus, which is capable for both innovationactivities and other activities that fulfill the living requirements of students and staffs, shouldbe designed in a way of arranging the organization of campus architectures, creating campuscommunities and providing the connection network among buildings. At last, architecture wise,it should be focusing on forming the architectural space which is suitable for modern researchand innovation organizations and new teaching idea by providing collaborative innovationspace, informal space and cooperative structure.3. Conclusion and Exploration (Chapter Seven)This is to conclude the overall principal and strategy on campus planning through theanalysis and discussion in previous chapters. Moreover, with the cases which are in charged bythe writer, practical application of such design strategy and its development in future arefurther explored. This article indicates that since the collaborative innovation has broadly been accepted asan organization module of innovation activities, the design strategy of constructing a researchuniversity with a friendly environment for cooperation among institutes, enables the campus tobecome a unique space of open, collaborative, interaction encouraging and flexible byintegrating formal and informal spaces, functional and social structure of various levels. Bylearning the outstanding problems of the constructions of domestic universities and theadvanced experience of the universities overseas, the design strategy raised by this article cannot only be the reference for solving the existing problems but also provide a theory andpractical guidance for building innovative and research campus in future.