RETHINKING THE RESEARCH FUNDING PROCESS: An Indian Perspective

In this paper I focus on the substantial research funding cuts announced by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) in March 2021 to examine the process of funding for and participation in global research projects for researchers based in Southern institutions. I focus here on three key aspects of participating in global research projects: first, the structures through which these grants are created—the programmatic frameworks or other imperatives that confine and limit this work to Northern/Western-centric frames; secondly, the precarity of these grants and the work that they generate; and, thirdly, the increasingly output-related and time-bound nature of work in light of limited support. I argue that the effects of these are felt disproportionately by those located in the global South and are therefore worth considering as part of larger debates centred on democratizing and decolonizing knowledge networks.     

我国银行业宏观审慎监管问题研究

国际金融危机爆发以后,防范系统性风险和维护金融稳定成为监管机构的主要任务,宏观审慎监管由此备受关注。本文对加强银行业宏观审慎监管的必要性进行了阐述,对现有微观审慎监管体制进行了反思,在此基础上,结合我国实际提出了建立与宏观经济部门的合作关系、调整监管机构内部职责、建立宏观审慎监管框架、完善系统性风险分析工具方法和培育宏观视野的监管人才等建议。     

Experience matters: The role of academic scientist mobility for industrial innovation

Research Summary: A learning‐by‐hiring approach is used to scrutinize scientists' mobility in relation to the recruiting firms' subsequent innovation output. Our starting point is that among firm hires, individuals with university research experience—hired from universities or firms—can be particularly valuable. However, conflicting institutional logics between academia and industry makes working with academic scientists challenging at times for firms. We suggest two solutions to this difficulty: hiring “ambidextrous” individuals with a mix of experience of university research and working for a technologically advanced firm, and a strong organizational research culture in the recruiting firm reflected by the presence of a scientist on the top management team. We track the mobility of R&D workers empirically using patent and linked employer‐employee data. Managerial Summary: An important way to make organizations more innovative is hiring individual researchers with the right types of skills and experience. We show that individuals with university research experience beyond their final degree are particularly likely to help boost firm‐level innovation output after hiring compared to R&D workers with other types of skills and experience. However, to obtain good returns to innovation from hiring such individuals, firms need a university research–friendly organizational culture when hiring individuals with university research experience, from either firms or academia.     

Extending the “P” perspective: An institutional account of management research in Australia

In commenting Meyer’s article “Asian management research needs more self-confidence” in APJM (2006), Yang and Terjesen (Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 24(4):497–507, 2007) described ground realities in Australia that may have inhibited the development of a robust management research community. As an Australia-trained and Australia-based Asian management scholar, I extend the “P” perspective by exploring how the formal and informal institutions interact in shaping Australia-based scholars’ publication strategies and research performance. Reflecting on my experience in Australia, I argue that like in any other businesses, institutions matter in our business of research and publication. They matter because they can shape the local “rule of the game” within which a country’s or a region’s scholars conduct and publish their research. A full institutional account of the current state of management research in the Asia Pacific region requires a deeper understanding of both formal and informal local institutions. From such an institutional perspective, this commentary concentrates on why Australian management research lags behind that in the US and Europe and yet leads the Asia Pacific region.

The impact of agricultural research on productivity and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

While it is widely recognized that agricultural research is a key driver of broad-based technological change in agriculture that benefits the poor in many different ways, little is known about its aggregate impacts on productivity growth and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using a polynomial distributed lag structure for agricultural research within a simultaneous system of equations framework, this paper first demonstrates that agricultural research contributes significantly to productivity growth in SSA. Productivity growth is again shown to raise per capita incomes, with income increases finally having significant poverty-reducing effects. With an aggregate rate of return of 55%, the payoffs to agricultural research are also impressive. Agricultural research currently reduces the number of poor by 2.3 million or 0.8% annually. While the actual impacts are not large enough to more than offset the poverty-increasing effects of population growth and environmental degradation, the potential impacts of agricultural research are far greater. Apart from low research investments, SSA faces several constraints outside the research system that hinder realization of potential research benefits. The results show that doubling research investments in SSA would reduce poverty by 9% annually. However, this would not be realized without more efficient extension, credit, and input supply systems.     

宏观金融效率与微观金融效率一致吗？——来自广东省农信社的实证数据（1993—2004）

农村金融是中国金融体系的短板,中国农村金融发展的关键是效率问题。针对宏微观金融效率研究出现的分野,聚焦中国金融体系的短板,本文以广东省农信社为例,尝试回答“宏观金融效率是否与微观金融效率一致”的问题。本文首先通过回归分析与基于经济发展分区的Panel-Data模型分别检验广东省农信社作为一个整体与经济分区对广东农村经济可能存在的促进作用,实证结果表明：Panel—Data模型的分析结果更加显著,农信社发展对农村经济有更加显著的促进作用。文章接着将广东农信社的微观金融效率与四大国有银行的微观金融效率进行比较．发现广东省农信社的宏观金融效率与微观金融效率不匹配。     

全民健保战略目标下的医疗救助理念研究——浙江省新型社会救助体系的启示

在全民健保的战略目标下,医疗救助的地位被弱化,只是对因病致贫人员和特殊群体实行的临时性救助。然而,以缴费型保险为主的医疗保障体系不能从根本上解决贫困人口的医疗费用问题。因此,从目前过渡到全民健保阶段,医疗救助的地位不应该被削弱。目前我国医疗救助的理念定位不清,没有充分化解贫困人口的疾病风险。本文以全民健保的战略目标和医改为背景,对基本风险、最低需求、政府责任这几个基本概念加以界定;并从医疗救助化解的社会风险出发,分析全民健保战略目标下仍需医疗救助处理的基本风险;再以浙江省分层分类的覆盖城乡的新型社会救助体系为例,阐述医疗救助理念定位需要重点解决的两个关键问题,反思医疗救助与社会医疗保险的关系和医疗救助水平,促进公平和效率。     

我国保险理论研究态势及其国际比较——基于学术期刊载文的分析

本文在剖析《保险研究》和JRI、RMIR、GRIR四份国内外保险学术期刊近五年来刊载的上千篇论文资料和引文资料的基础上,比较了中外保险理论研究的异同。作者结合保险特色,从研究内容(研究主题、研究险种),研究单位,文献、期刊和学科(影响保险理论研究的文献和期刊、影响保险理论研究的学科)等方面展开分析,结论主要以数据图表展现。本文希望引发有益我国保险理论研究的启示与思考。     

高科技企业成长性评价研究综述与展望

本文参考现有的国内外研究文献,首先,总结学者们关于高科技企业成长性内涵的界定;然后 ,从技术创新能力、经营绩效、竞争能力、外部环境支撑、核心竞争力与信用风险等研究视 角,以及财务与非财务指标两个维度,全面梳理高科技企业成长性评价体系研究现状,对高 科技企业成长性评价体系研究现状进行评述;最后,进一步提出高科技企业成长性评价体系 设计框架的研究构想。     

产学研相结合--新时期我国企业科技创新持续发展途径

本文列举了我国企业与高校、科研院所的科技力量分布不平衡的情况;介绍了科学研究的两种模式,产学研相结合开展技术创新,就是对这两种模式的具体运用,并深入分析了企业-高校-科研院所产学研相结合持续发展的作用机制、产学研相结合的三种形式;提出了社会各界对产学研相结合的持续发展应给予的政策支持。