Study On The Collaboration Between University And Industry Sector In The Regional Innovation System

The higher education institutions,especially the research universities,have become the key factor in the process of building national innovation system for developed countries.Compared with other institutions,research universities show very import functions in several areas:firstly,there can be no replacement for research university on the role of training qualified personnel,particularly innovative talents.Secondly,the accumulative effect and the diffusive effect of research university can attract much more government sponsored research programs,meanwhile,the innovation capacity has been improved.Thirdly,the linkage among different actors in national innovation system can be strengthen by research universities in multiple ways like the invention of original research,technology transfer,licensing,research partnership with industry sectors.The forward introduced the backgrounds of this research and analyze the related concept of innovation,listed general research questions,then pointed out why these questions were so important.Chapter 1 induced the research origin and status of innovation theory.This part focuses on the analysis of development of innovation theory in the past years,it includes the innovation of Schumpeter,the extension of innovation concept,the classification of innovation,the measurement of innovation,innovation system theory.Chapter 2 expatiated the formation and development of U.S national innovation system and divided it into three stages:the rudiment of national innovation system(from the beginning of 20^th century to the second world war),the formation of national innovation system(from mid-20^th century to the end of 1980s),the change and future trends of U.S national innovation system?since 1990s?.After depict the whole development of U.S national innovation system,chapter 3made a literal functional analyze of research university in national innovation system.What new characters and functions have been endowed in the past history?In basic research areas,how do research universities motivate the development of U.S national innovation system?This part also demonstrated the relationship between innovation activities and innovation diffusion of research universities.Chapter 4 discussed how the knowledge production of research universities have established connection with the interdisciplinary,diversification of innovation system.The triple helix model has been introduced to explain the increasing of interaction among multiple organizations in the innovation system.In particularly,the emergence of innovation cluster and university related research park represent how research university build direct and indirect interactions with industry sectors,government,independent research institutions and other social organizations.