Emptying the future: On the environmental politics of anticipation

Anticipation may be seen as structured by images and representations, an approach that has informed recent work in science and technology studies on the sociology of expectations. But anticipation, as a capacity or characteristic, is not solely manifested in the form of representations, even where such representations of the ‘not yet’ are performative in nature. It also comprises material capacities, technological, biophysical and affective in nature. The politics of anticipation is shaped by how these symbolic and material capacities, and the forms of agency they make possible, are distributed. As anticipation is an environmentally distributed capacity, it is suggested that the politics of anticipation is also an environmental politics. A conceptual framework for analysing anticipation as comprised of environmental capabilities is introduced, and fleshed out using a case study of energy infrastructure planning from the UK. Key elements of this framework include the concepts of anticipatory assemblages and future horizons or ‘styles’ of anticipation. Working through the case study as an empirical example of a conflict concerning the politics of anticipation and of ‘environments’, it is demonstrated how the relationships between styles of anticipation are materially constitutive of such conflicts.     

多层级视角下京津冀科技创新政策府际关系研究

府际关系协调有利于实现创新资源、要素的有效汇聚与整合，进而提升政策有效性。以京津冀为例，构建中央-地方多层级府际关系模型，分析中央政策主体合作网络特征与政策扩散特征、地方政策主体合作网络特征与政策执行特征的相关性。研究发现，中央政府部门间形成了以科技部为核心的核心—边缘网络结构特征；北京市政府部门间呈现出以中关村科技管理委员会为核心的核心-边缘网络结构特征；天津市政府部门间呈现出以天津市科学技术委员会为核心的星型网络结构特征；河北省则没有形成稳定的网络关系。中央政策主体合作网络中的度中心性与政策扩散广度具有相关性；地方政策主体合作网络中介中心性、度中心性与政策执行强度具有相关性。     

融资渠道与中国区域技术创新

运用2011-2016年中国内地31个省份面板数据，通过固定效应模型检验不同融资渠道对全国以及东中西部地区技术创新的影响。结果表明：①债权融资在整体上对技术创新影响不显著，分地区看，其在东部地区发挥了促进作用，而在中西部地区则起到抑制作用；②从整体及中西部地区看，股权融资对技术创新的影响不显著，且抑制了东部地区技术创新；③对股市板块进行细分后，整体上股权融资中只有创业板股权融资显著促进了技术创新水平提升，主板和中小板的作用均不显著。     

中国OFDI技术创新效应的传导机制——基于资本要素市场扭曲视角的分析

本文尝试构建一个中国OFDI(对外直接投资)技术创新效应传导机制理论框架,并对资本要素市场扭曲影响OFDI技术创新效应的作用机制和结果进行拓展分析。研究表明:近年来中国企业OFDI对技术创新具有正向效果,且OFDI企业可以通过从劳动密集型向资本密集型的转型升级、提高管理效率以及生产效率这三个重要途径实现其技术创新能力的跃升;现阶段中国资本要素市场扭曲现象会显著抑制企业OFDI技术创新效应,作用机制是,资本要素市场扭曲作为干扰外部摩擦因子,通过降低企业资本要素密集度和生产效率等渠道抑制企业OFDI技术创新效果。本文进一步提出构建知识产权金融化建议,包含知识产权股权化、知识产权证券化和知识产权流动性机制等内容,以此引导更多金融资源和人力资源参与企业技术创新活动。     

学术印记、网络惯例与大学衍生企业产业嵌入

在大学衍生企业创业实践中，与产业主体间缺乏合作默契已成为大学衍生企业向产业网络嵌入的重要阻滞因素。针对该问题，基于网络惯例新视角，从大学衍生企业学术创生背景带来的异质性入手，构建“学术印记—网络惯例—产业网络嵌入”作用模型，探索技术动荡性的调节效应。运用多元回归分析等方法，对379家大学衍生企业调研数据进行实证检验。结果表明，大学衍生企业学术印记对网络惯例建立具有积极促进作用。同时，在向产业嵌入过程中，网络惯例对产业网络嵌入两个维度的作用机制存在差异，与结构嵌入存在倒U型关系，但正向促进关系嵌入。技术动荡性在“学术印记—网络惯例—产业网络关系嵌入”关系中具有正向调节作用。     

专利制度在高校科技成果转化中的运行机理及改革路径

一直以来，高校科技成果转化问题都是社会热点且亟待解决。权属分配是政府引导转化工作的突破点，而权属分配又与专利制度紧密相关。“拜杜法案”以美国专利法修正案形式发挥着促进成果转化的作用，也同样暗示了专利制度对成果转化的重要性和特殊性。现阶段，确有必要探讨成果转化激励失效与专利制度的关联性，分析专利制度在高校科技成果转化中的运行机理及决定性作用，并结合我国部分地区改革实践经验与相关法学理论观点，论证高校职务科技成果赋权改革的合理性。同时，对赋权改革如何疏通高校科技成果转化堵点进行分析，结合《赋予科研人员职务科技成果所有权或长期使用权试点实施方案》，展望专利制度变革及相关规则体系建设的前景与方向。     

网络嵌入特征与研发经历对通讯企业预研阶段研发者选择的影响

预研关系到企业在未来行业发展中的竞争优势，但以往相关研究多集中于国防军工企业，对一般民用企业研究较少。从研发者嵌入的网络结构与其自身属性特征两个角度出发，验证通讯企业在3G到4G技术跨越过程中选择预研研发者的影响因素，给出中介中心度、自我中心网结构洞、研发经历3个方面的假设。通过稀有事件logistic回归分析发现，自我中心网中的结构洞个数越多、以往研发技术经历越丰富，研发者越可能被选拔进入企业预研活动。研究结论具有较高的应用价值，可为企业预研中人力资源管理提供决策依据。     

粮库机电设备招投标流程

机电设备招投标一般是由甲方委托所指定的公共交易平台代为发起,在所需条件范围内设置标书内容和所需交易条件,依照法律程序所规定的程序内容,对多个参与方提交的技术方案、报价、响应条件进行评审,从中选择最接近中标单位条件的一种交易方式。本文主要针对各企业机电设备招投标事项进行归纳总结。     

Technological adoption and use after mass market displacement: The case of the LP record

This paper investigates the reasons why some technologies, defying general expectations and the established models of technological change, may not disappear from the market after having been displaced from their once-dominant status. Our point of departure is that the established models of technological change are not suitable to explain this as they predominantly focus on technological dominance, giving attention to the technologies that display highest performance levels and gain greatest market share. And yet, technological landscapes are rife with technological designs that do not fulfil these conditions. Using the LP record as an empirical case, we propose that the central mechanism at play in the continuing market presence of once-dominant technologies is the recasting of their technological features from the functional-utilitarian to the aesthetic realm, with an additional element concerning communal interaction among users. The findings that emerge from our quantitative textual analysis of over 200,000 posts on a prominent online LP-related discussion forum (between 2002 and 2010) also suggest that the post-dominance technology adopters and users appear to share many key characteristics with the earliest adopters of new technologies, rather than with late-stage adopters which precede them.     

Technological content of exports

A large body of literature argues that the characteristics of exports matter for economic growth and development because some goods trigger positive externalities or are subject to increasing returns. Thus, for policy purposes, it is important to know whether a country’s export basket enjoys these productive opportunities. They have been associated with technological content of exports. However, measuring them is not easy. Previous methodologies to account for exports’ technological content used either R&;D data or trade data. The former is used to account for knowledge-intensive activities during the production phase and the latter to identify levels of ‘sophistication’ of exports based on exporting countries’ characteristics. Building on these contributions, this paper combines industry-based and product-based indicators to circumvent some of the shortcomings of the received literature, including the product-industry controversy (i.e. are the actual activities during the production process or the product characteristics what better accounts exports’ technological content?). We use data from Uruguay on direct and indirect R&;D spending from public and private sources and also trade data to build the sophistication index corrected by quality. We contrast our findings with existing methodologies to highlight our contribution.