Research On The Influence Of University-industry Collaboration On Interaction Between University’s Innovation Activities And Its Threshold Effect

Collaborative innovation is a cooperation innovation behavior that enterprise, university and other differentiated subject sharing their resources and complementing their innovation capabilities. The growth of innovation main body’s capabilities and their synergy symbiosis is the inner energy source of collaborative innovation system evolution. However, the industry technology innovation capability is generally weak in our country, and there is a huge difference between university’s and enterprise’s capability structure, all these caused the conflict between motivation and behavioral objectives. Due to lack of systematical recognition of subject attribute and ability structure between university and enterprise, and lack of system and related policies that solve these problems, collaborative innovation played an important role on promoting enterprise’s technology innovation capability, but ignores the realization of university’s organizational goals such as disciplinary development and high level scientific research. Even a view is that university involved in too many commercialized application research will against the development of university basic research. Now, university’s scientific research should be engaged in whether ―science‖ or ―technology‖, interaction between university’s innovation activities is whether ―complementary‖ or ―substitutability‖, has become the hot spot of research and academic debate. In this context, how to envisage the interaction between university’s innovation activities under collaborative innovation environment has become the key of university itself get capability growth from participate in collaborative innovation.Based on this, the paper rethinks the performance of universities in university-industry collaboration standing on the position of university. It also study on the interaction between innovation activities of university and the impact of it on the university-industry collaboration in the perspective of integration of basic and applied research from the "New Pasteur quadrant" paradigm. The paper based on 61 colleges and universities directly under the Ministry of Education during 2007-2012 in China, makes a test of complementary and alternative of basic research and applied research of the university, and further explore intensity of university-industry collaboration in which threshold effect may exist, through a series of hierarchical test models. Firstly the paper analyzes the direct influence of basic and applied research on the innovation performance of university, and then adds interactivity to examine the complementary or alternative the relationship between the basic research and applied research activities; Finally use threshold effects test methods to empirical analysis the impact of university-industry collaboration on the innovation of university. Empirical studies show that: innovation performance of university increased year after year, but the performance of different types of universities are quite different. University presents complementary relationship between basic research and applied research, and comprehensive universities complementary significantly stronger than science, engineering, and other universities. However, the role of the University of Cooperative innovation performance is not obvious, and the moderating effect of basic and applied research on the integration of the University is limited, which shows that our cooperation still has much space for improvement, and the university-industry collaboration of different types of universities have the quite different cooperation intensity threshold values.