搭建创新创业平台 服务区域经济建设 走独具特色的科技园发展之路

经过几年的探索与努力,河北工业大学走出了一条在特殊条件下"多点办园"的大学科技园建设之路,形成了"一园两区"的建设格局.即在学校所在地--天津市红桥区建成以高新技术成果孵化为主的天津红桥孵化园区,在河北省会石家庄建成以高新技术成果产业为主的工业化示范园区.     

发挥特色 为我国交通事业添彩

铁路作为国民经济大动脉,提出了跨越式发展战略,到2010年要形成时速达到200至300公里的客运专线、城际客运铁路和既有线提速线路配套的32000公里的快速客运网络,建成快速货运网络,加快实现客车车辆升级换代,时速200公里以上动车组实现国产化.     

实现二次跨越 推进浙江大学国家大学科技园发展

浙江大学国家大学科技园自2001年创建以来,在促进学校科技成果转化.高新技术企业孵化、创新创业人才培养以及高新技术产业辐射等方面都取得了显著进展.为地方科技进步,经济建设和社会发展作出了积极贡献.历经近8年的发展,浙大科技园积累了一定经验,目前正面临着二次发展的机遇和挑战.未来5-10年是浙大科技园建设与发展的关键时期.     

推进科技成果转化 努力构建和谐园区

河南省大学科技园2002年由河南省人民政府批准创立,2004年12月被国家科技,教育主管部门认定为国家级大学科技园,并于2006年被国家科技部认定为国家级科技企业孵化器.2006、2007、2008连续3年取得科技型中小企业技术创新基金创业项目服务机构资格,2007年成为全国大学生科技创业企业服务机构.     

洞悉历史机遇 夯实发展基础 打造特色园区

东湖高新区国家大学科技园是首批经国家科技部、教育部批准建设的国家级大学科技园.武汉大学科技园作为其重要组成部分之一,位于"武汉·中国光谷"的中心地带,园区基础配套设施完善.人文及自然环境优美.武汉大学科技园在国家相关部委.湖北省.武汉市、武汉东湖高新区管委会相关职能部门和武汉大学的指导、支持下,紧盯国际国内科技产业发展动态,审时度势,积极调整服务园区企业.服务地方经济发展新思路,努力探索大学科技园发展模式,努力建设集创新创业服务、科技成果转化和高新技术产业发展于一体的功能型原生态特色产业园区,已经形成了研发、孵化、产业化不断递进,良性循环的发展格局.     

Separating early-adopters from the majority: The case of Broadband Internet access in Korea

This paper examines key static determinants and dynamic diffusion processes to develop a diffusion model of network products from the case of rapid growth of Broadband Internet in Korea. In the competitive environment of shortening product life cycle, there have been few studies on the key factors affecting the rapid and dynamic diffusion of network products. This paper identifies that market and technological factors have had a great impact on the explosive diffusion speed, while government and socio-cultural factors moderately contributed to the rapid diffusion. This paper also explores the dynamic diffusion processes: diffusion for the early-adopter and diffusion for the majority. Finally, theoretical propositions are developed on the diffusion of innovation for network products and practical implications for expediting the diffusion of emerging technologies are discussed.     

Bring institutions into FDI spillover research: Exploring the impact of ownership restructuring and institutional development in emerging economies

Extant studies exploring the influences of foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers on the productivity of local firms have provided conflicting evidence. In particular, they have largely overlooked the important role of institutional mechanisms in the host market in understanding the sources of the variation in FDI spillover effects on the productivity of local firms, especially in the context of emerging markets. Using a comprehensive panel data set of manufacturing firms in China during 1998–2007, our paper presents an integrative framework of how FDI spillovers affect the productivity of local firms in emerging markets. We identify an inverted U-shaped relationship between FDI spillovers and the productivity of local firms in China. This result suggests the coexistence of and the interplay between the opposing mechanisms of FDI spillover learning opportunity and adverse competition. Drawing on the institution-based view, this study also develops contingency frameworks and arguments to explore the question of if FDI spillover effects are contingent on, or independent of, a local institutional context especially in emerging markets. We find that institutional mechanisms, such as the institutionally determined ownership restructuring and the different levels of subnational institutional development within the host emerging market, significantly shape the variation of FDI spillover effects on the productivity of local firms. This research highlights the importance of incorporating institutional effects in understanding the FDI spillover effects in emerging markets.     

Corporate Environmental Responsibility and the Cost of Capital: International Evidence

We examine how corporate environmental responsibility (CER) affects the cost of equity capital for manufacturing firms in 30 countries. Using several approaches to estimate firms’ ex ante equity financing costs, we find in regressions that control for firm-level characteristics as well as industry, year, and country effects that the cost of equity capital is lower when firms have higher CER. This finding is robust to addressing endogeneity through instrumental variables, to using alternative specifications and proxies for the cost of equity capital, and to accounting for noise in analyst forecasts. We conclude that investment in CER reduces firms’ equity financing costs worldwide.     

Do Consumers Discriminate Against Foreign Companies Even When They are Green?

The international business literature has long investigated the role of corporate environmentalism, or “going green,” in business. However, this research has been limited regarding the dynamics of a firm's eco-friendly image and consumers' intention to purchase the firm's products in light of the consumer's complex social viewpoint and how that eco-friendly image is perceived. This limitation is due in part to the complex nature of the eco-friendly image-purchase intention relationship, especially when taking into account the consumers' identification with the firm, as well as the role of consumer ethnocentrism. Through the use of an experimental survey, we found differences between countries and the role of the firm's eco-friendly image and consumer ethnocentrism. In particular, an eco-friendly image was positively related to identification with the firm in a German company sample. The findings also show that this identification mediates the effect of eco-friendly image on purchase intention. Consumer ethnocentrism significantly moderated the effect of this identification on purchase intention as well in the Chinese company sample. Implications for managers of multinational enterprises are discussed, as are avenues for future research.