A Study On The Impact Of Absorptive Capacity On University And Industry Collaboration Performance

Chinese economic aggregate has surpassed Japan to become the world's second in 2010. But Chinese industrial innovation has been the problem of low efficiency for a long time. With the continuous development of Chinese economy, China's manufacturing industry is facing increasing labor costs, the competitive advantage is gradually being weakened. the market for technology strategy is gradually failure.How to get rid of the control of multinational companies in core technology and intellectual property strategy for the formation of the enormous pressure of Chinese manufacturing, and how to find the basis of long-term sustainable competitive advantage outside of the labor cost advantage has become a focus concern of increasing number of policy makers, industry professionals and researchers.Industry and universities are the two major sources of social innovation system. These two innovative resources are complementarities in many places. University and industry collaboration is the two institutions based on a common development goals, according to certain rules or mechanism , forming a collaborative R&D relationship. The purpose is to establish the new production function talk about by Schumpeter, creating a demand for and value of the unknown species, and ultimately formatting the enterprise's core competitivenessChina's current independent innovation capability of enterprises is weak. At this time to introduce innovative resources of universities could effectively promote their innovation and capacity development. Therefore, in this context, university and industry collaboration as an important form of external collaboration caused widespread concern in the practice and theoretical community.We choose the absorptive capacity of enterprises as a breakthrough to research university and industry collaboration performance. Firstly we did the literature review and depth interviews, and analyzed absorptive capacity in the context of university and industry collaboration. And then, we discuss how does the Absorption capacity affecting the middle process of university and industry collaboration in detail.We found the appropriate proxy variables to establish an empirical model and related hypothesis in order to open the black box of how does the absorptive capacity affects the performance of university and industry collaboration.Finally, we organize a large-scale survey to collect data and use the tools of structural equation modeling (SEM) and moderate variable test to do the empirical study. The results show that: first, the University and industry collaboration performance was affected by efficiency of processes within this collaboration. Second, the absorptive capacity of the sub-dimensions: potential absorptive capacity and realized capacity will affect the University and industry collaboration performance through these processes(Resource complementarity, formalize, information exchange and sticky knowledge transfer). Third, these effect will be moderated by market uncertainty and techonology complexity.Our study explore the theory and practice to enrich research in this relatively new area of university and industry collaboration. And doing a systematic literature review of its motivation, model, performance, risk and factors affecting on performance about university and industry collaboration to summary a relatively complete overview for follow-up study. We broke static perspective of research on the performance of university and industry collaboration, introducing a dynamic perspective to study the whole process of university and industry collaboration.We also make a theoretical innovation to the sub-division of absorption capacity in creative. stating the two-dimensional sub-dimensions standard of absorption capacity, and use it to explain the current academic disputes in reasonable.Finally, we did a theoretical explorer on the specific role of these abstract absorption capacity sub-dimensions. and analysising the how does the absorptive capacity affect the whole process of university and industry collaboration. The main conclusions can be a reference for future research about the absorptive capacity in the context of university and industry collaboration.