Abstract
Policy transfer is a process in which different organizations learn from each other to achieve policy innovation. It is also considered as an important channel of policy issuance. In China, national independent innovation demonstration zones serve as carriers of not only technological development, but also technological policies issued by China. Along with development of these national independent innovation demonstration zones, policy exchange and cooperation has become increasingly frequent among them. This paper attempts to find out different paths for policy transfer through a textual analysis of policies among China’s national independent innovation demonstration zones. First, quantitative connotation and characteristics of policy transfer are analyzed. Then, a policy transfer quantitative evaluation index system is built based on three dimensions of policy transfer, namely intensity, breadth and speed. Following that, the quantitative evaluation index system is used to analyze policy transfer among national independent innovation demonstration zones. The paper tries to explore favorable policy categories for transfer, and learn the policy development status in these national independent innovation demonstration zones as well as the policy transfer trend from different perspectives. To sum up, this research can provide not only data support for policy innovation of China’s independent innovational demonstration zones and accelerate their in-depth cooperation in terms of policy transfer, but also a new methodological research paradigm for quantitative analysis of policy transfer among parallel organizations.
Highlights
China’s National Innovation Demonstration Zone (NIIDZ) are organizations built on the existing new-and high-tech industrial development areas to improve China’s capability of independent innovation (Huang et al, 2013; Li, 2016)
Based on the policy transfer link of China’s NIIDZs, this paper proposes three indexes, including policy transfer intensity, breadth and speed, to describe policy transfer
Connotation of policy transfer among NIIDZs is analyzed in view of quantitative policy transfer results
Summary
China’s National Innovation Demonstration Zone (NIIDZ) are organizations built on the existing new-and high-tech industrial development areas to improve China’s capability of independent innovation (Huang et al, 2013; Li, 2016). Under the current development system, independent innovation of Chinese enterprises cannot be separated from national support (Bichler & Schmidkonz, 2014; Strbac & Pollitt, 2014; Lin et al, 2016). The past eight years have witnessed remarkable achievements of NIIDZs in the field of technological innovation. These achievements have been recognized by both the central government and the local government. In 2016 alone, China approved establishment of six NIIDZs. Emerging as brand-new organizations, these NIIDZs, though having different development concepts and management systems, keep on learning from each other. Statistics show that, since establishment of NIIDZs, the number of policies par.ccsenet.org
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