Research On The Impact Of Network Location And Multidimensional Proximity On The Innovation Performance Of Military Civilian Science And Technology Cooperation In Colleges And Universities Based On QCA

Military-civilian technological cooperation and innovation are an inevitable choice for implementing the strategy of military-civilian integration in the new era,which has a considerable influence on the economic progress and national defense construction of the whole society.Universities have advantages such as talent gathering and significant basic research results,making them the main force in military-civilian technological cooperation and innovation.The cooperation and innovation between universities and defense units is not only an important way for universities to acquire key resources and promote technological innovation,but also an important proposition for better implementing the national innovation-driven strategy.Therefore,exploring the impact mechanism of collaborative innovation between universities and defense units and improving the efficiency and level of scientific and technological innovation between universities and defense units have become urgent issues to be addressed.This study abandons the traditional method of only focusing on the impact of a single variable on collaborative innovation performance.Based on a holistic perspective and configurational thinking,it uses fs QCA to explore the mechanism of the combined effect of multiple factors on the performance of university-military technology cooperation and innovation.Firstly,by summarizing the domestic and foreign literature on the factors affecting collaborative innovation performance,and based on the specific background of cooperation and innovation between universities and defense units,this study analyzes the linkage between the five antecedent conditions of centrality,structural holes,geographic proximity,institutional proximity,and technological proximity at the network position and multidimensional proximity levels,and explores the underlying mechanism driving the performance of university-military technology cooperation and innovation.A theoretical model driving the performance of university-military technology cooperation and innovation is constructed.Secondly,taking 32 universities supported by the National Defense Science and Technology Industry Bureau as the research object and using patent cooperation data as empirical evidence,this study seeks effective paths to achieve high innovation performance.Finally,the empirical results are verified through robustness testing and alternative analysis,and countermeasures and suggestions are proposed to promote sustained scientific and technological cooperation and innovation between universities and national defense units.Through research,it has been found that:(1)The cooperation and innovation network between military and civilian technologies in universities began to take shape during the 10 th Five-Year Plan,steadily developing during the 11 th and 12 th Five-Year Plans,and entering a stage of rapid development during the 13 th Five-Year Plan.The scale of the cooperation and innovation network has gradually expanded,and the core entities have become increasingly prominent,exhibiting the characteristics of a multi-core network.Cooperation between universities and national defense units has shown a clear cross-regional feature,and the core region has gradually expanded from provinces with rich military resources to economically developed regions.(2)There are three paths to achieving high cooperation and innovation performance through the linkage between network position and multi-dimensional proximity:technology-driven,distance-convenient,and institutional-led.Among them,distance-convenient and institutional-led paths cover more than 85% of the case universities.(3)There is a substitution effect between the preconditions for promoting high cooperation and innovation performance paths.When universities are in a central position in the network and occupy a structural hole advantage,high geographical proximity or high institutional proximity can both link with structural holes and centrality,achieving high cooperation and innovation performance through “different paths leading to the same goal”.(4)Institutional distance and network centrality are the main factors inhibiting the improvement of cooperation and innovation performance between universities and military technologies.