Abstract
In this study, university-industry collaborations in China and the USA are analyzed in terms of co-authored publications indexed in the Web of Science (WoS). Results show a wide gap between China and the USA: Chinese universities are much less active in collaborations with industry in terms of either publication productivity or collaboration intensity. In selecting local and foreign industrial partners, however, more variation exists among Chinese universities than among US universities. The US system is domestically oriented more than that of China. In the USA, the intensity of university-industry collaboration is determined by research quality, whereas in China this is not the case. In both China and the USA, distance is not critical for the establishment of domestic university-industry collaboration. A high correlation is found between productivity indicators including total publications and university-industry co-authored publications. However, the productivity indicators are less correlated with the intensity of university-industry collaboration. Large research universities with strong ties to domestic industry play critical roles in both national publication systems.
Highlights
Both universities and industry are producers, their raw materials and output are completely different
In the era when knowledge plays a critical role in economic growth, university-industry relations have attracted growing interests of the research community [2,3,4,5,6]
When a government involves as a third player in a research system, the dynamic relations between university, government and industry can be generalized as Triple-Helix relations [7,8]
Summary
Both universities and industry are producers, their raw materials and output are completely different. Most of the Chinese universities leading in UIC publications collaborate more with domestic than foreign industry and with high variation. Most industrial partners of the leading Chinese universities are located further than 50 kilometers away from the city center where the university (or its main campus) is located (Table 4), which implies less importance of the geographical distance in determining domestic university-industry collaborations in China.
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