The Difference Effect of Environmental Regulation on Two Stages of Technology Innovation in China’s Manufacturing Industry

This paper divides technological innovation into two stages: technology development and technology transfer. Then the authors use the panel data of 28 manufacturing industries during 2003–2012 to test the econometric regression model for the industry of the sub stages, which is a regulation on technological innovation in the environment. The results show that: (1) environmental regulation has a significant role in promoting China’s manufacturing technology research patent achievements, and technology into new products, and this indicated that “Porter hypothesis” in the manufacturing sector has been verified; (2) R&D and transfer expenditure have a positive impact on technological innovation. Finally, the authors put forward the corresponding policy recommendations for industry of the environmental regulation on the impact of technological innovation in phases.     

全球无线充电产业发展现状分析

简要介绍了无线充电技术的产业化应用,通过对全球三大无线充电企业联盟——WPC、A4WP、PMA的统计分析,研究了三大企业联盟的规模以及联盟成员企业的国家、地区分布和行业性质,以此反映全球以三大企业联盟为核心的无线充电行业的的发展现状。研究表明,中国的成员企业众多,但在无线充电领域的产业布局不够完善,应该从终端产品代工向上游核心技术研发生产转移,不断推进无线充电技术的发展扩大和应用领域。     

Materials and strategies for successful innovation and competition in the metal packaging industry

Recent discussions about technological development and innovation have omitted some important issues: innovation development in so-called low-technology industries; the important role played by material technology not only in high-technology industries, but in the adaptation processes in most industries. These discussions often lack a historical perspective. Many contemporary issues, such as integrated product development and networking, have been central to industrial production for more than one hundred years. Each of these is discussed in this study of the emergence and development of the metal packaging industry over the last two hundred years. An important research question is the influence of material development on the development of strategies, dominant designs, and the overall adaptability of the industry. Against this background we cannot speak of one single successful strategy. In Denmark's can manufacturing industry a non-innovative strategy, characterized by volume and rationalization and based on licensing from the U.S., was developed. In tube production, however, a strategy of incremental innovation for solving problems related to the use of existing materials emerged based on the industry's own innovation resources, financed by world-wide licensing. Thus licensing played an important role for the technological adaptability of the industry.     

Developing countries and the aircraft industry: match or mismatch?

For many industrially developing countries, technology transfer is seen as a road towards technological and economic development. Indonesian experiences with the aircraft industry suggest that the transfer of technology in this sector is extremely difficult, and even if technology is actually transferred it does not necessarily lead to a viable industry. To determine the key elements for a successful transfer of technology, research was undertaken with a focus on the process of technology transfer at the operational level in industrially developing and developed countries. The research revealed that many technology transfer projects do not or, at best, only marginally contribute to technological development. It also showed that the aircraft industry, and possibly other industries as well, might be better suited to specific countries. To avoid making investments in industries that will inevitably not be competitive, industrially developing countries should be careful when deciding which types of industry to foster.     

Profitability decided by patent quality? An empirical study of the U.S. semiconductor industry

The investment in research and development (R&D) for semiconductor industry is never small as the technology cycle time (TCT) is relatively short comparing to other industries, thus a semiconductor company requires lots of technological innovations and capital offerings to maintain. The semiconductor industry contributes primarily part of the micro-electronic industries. Advancing technology and patent application are the centre of attention within the semiconductor sector. This research examines the relationship between patent quality and the profits a patent creates for a company in this selected field. This study distinguishes itself from prior research by including cross-sectional data, time series data to simultaneously collect and analyze. The study result shows that some indicators of patent quality are statistically significant to return on assets.     

江西省新材料产业成长发展研究

本文分析了江西省新材料产业发展现状,并通过实证分析得出江西省新材料产业发展的影响因素。依据江西省"十二五"规划分析新材料的发展重点及步骤,结合江西省新材料产业实际,提出江西省新材料产业成长与发展出现的问题和解决措施,为政府和企业制订规划提供参考和借鉴。     

高技术产业技术创新能力的突变评价模型

结合高技术产业的特点,借鉴国内外关于企业和产业技术创新能力评价指标的研究成果,充分利用现有科技和统计部门的统计数据对评价指标体系进行调整和优化,建立了高技术产业技术创新能力评价指标体系。同时,引入突变级数法构造了高技术产业技术能力突变评价模型,以中国2008年高技术产业中的5大行业为例进行算例分析。研究结果可为高技术产业中各行业明确自己的优劣势、正确选择技术创新战略和相关行业部门制定科学的技术创新政策提供依据。     

以智能网联汽车为载体的汽车强国战略顶层设计

智能网联汽车是以信息技术为代表的新科技变革趋势下产生的一种新兴产业形态。由于体现为跨行业多领域新技术的深度交叉融合,智能网联汽车的产业化发展必定能带动相关行业的协同进步,从而推动中国制造业的转型升级,实现我国由汽车大国向汽车强国的转变。本文阐述了建设汽车强国的本质内涵以及发展智能网联汽车对建设汽车强国的意义,分析了中国发展智能网联汽车具备的基础和面临的问题,并提出了以智能网联汽车为载体的建设汽车强国战略的顶层设计方案。     

Surface modification of low-cost bentonite adsorbents—A review

The growth of science and technology over the world has led to the establishment of various industries which has helped the industrial, technological, and agricultural development of many nations. Environmental pollution from a variety of toxic derivatives, particularly heavy metals and minerals, aromatic molecules and dyes in wastewater posed a great danger to human, plants, and aquatic creatures. Adsorption appears to be the most widely used method among other techniques for the removal of toxic compounds from wastewater. The use of different adsorbents for heavy metal removal has become a subject of great interest, and there have been continuous efforts to develop new, low-cost, and efficient adsorbent materials. Bentonite, in natural and modified forms, has been applied in the removal of different water contaminants. This paper provides a review on recent progress of surface modifications of bentonite and their applications in the removal of organic and inorganic water pollutants. A comparison on the physicochemical characteristics and removal performance was presented. The adsorption mechanisms in relation to the bentonite properties were briefly discussed to offer readers some insight on the usefulness of this clay mineral in wastewater treatment. The challenges encountered and remarks on future prospects were highlighted.     

区域先导产业选择的质量方法与实证研究——以湖北省制造业为例

先导产业的培育与发展关系到未来5~10年乃至更长时间我国能否保持经济持续增长和实现产业结构转型升级。本研究界定了先导产业的定义、内涵及主要特征,基于产业选择的逻辑和理论,引入产业发展质量维度评估,提出了区域先导产业选择和培育的质量方法。基于此评估方法,以湖北省制造业细分产业为研究对象,从产业基础能力、技术创新水平、产业发展质量、产业增长潜力等维度实证分析和评估湖北未来重点培育先导产业类别。本研究期望通过积极培育未来先导产业,推动传统优势产业转型升级以化解其产能过剩问题。同时,提出了促进湖北省未来先导产业快速发展的政策建议,可为其他区域的先导产业发展提供参考借鉴和实践价值。     

Competitive strategies for Taiwan's semiconductor industry in a new world economy

Taiwan's semiconductor industry (TSI) has been a popular research subject. In particular, the small island country's characteristic fast follower approaches to starting a capital and knowledge-intensive high-tech industry – such as the semiconductor industry – and making it a success story provide valuable insight into the fast-changing dynamics of these industries and a role model for developing countries. For a long time, the primary competitive edges of TSI have been speed, cost, flexibility, and quality, enabled by policy formulation, bridging institutions, public infrastructure, vertical disintegration, entrepreneurship, and human capital. However, facing heightened competition, a change of status (i.e. TSI is no longer a follower but a forerunner in a relatively mature state), and a changing world economy, TSI needs to develop additional core competencies to remain competitive. This article discusses the approaches adopted by Taiwan's public and private sectors for such a purpose. By surveying a wide variety of data including laws and policies, national science and technology programs, industry news, market reports, and relevant literature, the study suggests that technology, value, sustainability, and brand are the additional competitive edges being developed for TSI. The paper also discusses potential obstacles for TSI in the foreseeable future.     

纳米粉体超细纳米研磨技术交流

纳米科技是21世纪科技发展的重要技术领域,纳米科技将创造另一波技术创新及产业革命。其应用领域非常广,遍及电子、光电、医药生化、化纤、建材、金属及各基础产业。不论其应用领域为何,所需要用的材料均为次微米或纳米级尺度材料。如何得到纳米级粉体及将纳米级材料分散到其最终产品已成为目前产业、经济及学术界共同的研究课题。文章针对如何得到纳米粉体研磨及将纳米材料分散到其最终产品等技术进行探讨。     

Recent situation of industrial implementation of Cat-CVD technology in Japan

Efforts of industrial application of Cat-CVD technology are surveyed. Recent movement of industrial implementation is also reviewed by showing examples in Japanese industry. Cat-CVD technology is originally developed as a new tool for fabricating semiconductor devices, however, recently, use of the technology is attempted in various fields such as chemical, mechanical and bio-technical engineering. It is shown that Cat-CVD has high feasibility as a fundamental technology of modern industries.     

The EuroPhysiome, STEP and a roadmap for the virtual physiological human

Biomedical science and its allied disciplines are entering a new era in which computational methods and technologies are poised to play a prevalent role in supporting collaborative investigation of the human body. Within Europe, this has its focus in the virtual physiological human (VPH), which is an evolving entity that has emerged from the EuroPhysiome initiative and the strategy for the EuroPhysiome (STEP) consortium. The VPH is intended to be a solution to common infrastructure needs for physiome projects across the globe, providing a unifying architecture that facilitates integration and prediction, ultimately creating a framework capable of describing Homo sapiens in silico. The routine reliance of the biomedical industry, biomedical research and clinical practice on information technology (IT) highlights the importance of a tailor-made and robust IT infrastructure, but numerous challenges need to be addressed if the VPH is to become a mature technological reality. Appropriate investment will reap considerable rewards, since it is anticipated that the VPH will influence all sectors of society, with implications predominantly for improved healthcare, improved competitiveness in industry and greater understanding of (patho)physiological processes. This paper considers issues pertinent to the development of the VPH, highlighted by the work of the STEP consortium.     

Industry evolution and key technologies in China based on patent analysis

Patents are the manifestation of the industry’s research and development (R&D) endeavor; therefore, this paper studies the industry evolution of and key technologies in China from the perspective of patent analysis. Patents in six types of industries, including Chemical (excluding Drugs), Computers and Communications, Drugs and Medical, Electrical and Electronics (E&E), Mechanical, and Others are analyzed in this study. Findings from the analysis show a steady increase of US granted utility patents in China as well as percentage of these patents in the world over the period between 2003 and 2008. All the above industries in China have been growing rapidly during this period, which is very different from the global industry development. Despite the rapid development, the citation rates of these patents have been low, reflecting a need for improvement in the quality of patents and R&D performance for these six industries in China in order to exert more influence in the industry world. The analysis on patents also reveals China’s industry distribution to be similar to the global industry distribution, with the exception of E&E industry which weights over one third of the total patents in technologies. The E&E industry is also the field with largest economic growth which rises more rapidly after 2006 with a sudden increase of patents in USPC 361. Detailed tracking of the key technology evolution reveals that 90% of the newly issued patents in USPC 361 after 2006 are owned by Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd, pointing to an unbalanced R&D environment in China’s E&E industry sector. By providing the insight into the evolution of China’s industrial and technological development through the perspective of patent analysis, this paper hopes to provide an objective statistic reference for future policy directions and academic researches.     

Progress of remanufacturing engineering and future technology

After development for decades, abroad remanufacturing has formed a complete industrial system. At present, the research emphases are on marking logistics management and market cultivation theory of remanufacturing products, and so on. The Chinese remanufacturing starts fairly late. After 10 years of development, it formed a remanufacturing mode with Chinese characteristics that is sustained by high-tech industries, using the surface engineering
technology to restore the size and improve properties, and combining manufacturing, study and research together. The remanufacturing mode is not only circular but also economic. With the development of science and technology, future remanufacturing technology will break the previous limits, explore and understand the limits of micro machining. It will carry out the waste product remanufacturing in the micro-nano scale, and extend the remanufacturing industry to a more broad space.     

Technological Diversification Through Corporate Venture Capital Investments: Creating Various Options to Strengthen Dynamic Capabilities

Corporate venture capital (CVC) investment in technology-intensive entrepreneurial ventures has attracted increasing attention from established firms which recognize it as a useful learning investment strategy to create diversified technological options for future change. However, there is a lack of empirical research which examines the relationship between CVC investment and the corporate investors' technological diversification. In this study, we investigate the effects of CVC investments on corporate investors' technological diversity by using 20 years of panel data from corporate investors in five high-tech industries. As a result, we find that the total amount of CVC investments and the industrial diversity of portfolio companies exhibit curvilinear (inverted U-shape) relationships with the corporate investors' technological diversity. Moreover, the empirical results show that the absorptive capacity of corporate investors positively moderates the effects of CVC investments on the technological diversity.     

Thin films in photovoltaics: Technologies and perspectives

Thin Film technologies based on physical vapour and plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PVD and PECVD) have been developed for a number of high-tech industries over the last decades. Prominent examples are the semiconductor and display industry as well as large area architectural glass and flexible substrates deposition. Inherently linked with this development was the well known price experience curve for products in the respective industries. Analysing the price experience curves for PV crystalline silicon modules over the last 30 years and those of other Thin Film based industries, it will become evident that cost efficient PV Thin Film technologies or Thin Films in conjunction with wafer based c-Si are a prerequisite to meet the anticipated cost and price goals for the upcoming decade. As PV will demonstrate to become one of the major energy provider in the future by contributing significantly to meet the goal of 100% end energy by only renewable technologies beyond 2050 we will see a huge increase of appropriate Thin Film technologies in the years to come.     

我国合成橡胶产业现状及未来发展分析

近年来,随着轮胎等下游行业的快速发展,我国合成橡胶工业发展迅速,已经成为世界上最大的合成橡胶生产和消费国家。分析了我国合成橡胶产业的现状,根据存在的问题,提出了今后应该加强新技术开发,调整产品结构,开发新产品以及积极扩大出口等建议,以确保行业健康、快速发展,提高我国合成橡胶行业在市场中的竞争力。     

广东省高技术制造业与高等教育规模相关性研究

根据2004年～2009年广东省的经济数据,选取广东省高等学校在校生数与规模以上高技术制造业工业增加值作为研究对象,考察其相关程度。结果表明,高等学校在校生数与规模以上高技术制造业工业增加值之间存在高度正相关,并可构建规模以上高技术制造业工业增加值伴随高等学校在校生数变化的一元线性回归模型,对于给定的高校在校生数,得出规模以上高技术制造业工业增加值的估计值。最后,建议政府可以通过适当增加高校相关专业的招生,扩大高校在校生规模,来推动广东高技术制造业的发展。