Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1577:
Academia-Industry Linkages and the Role of Active Innovation Policies – Firm-level Evidence in Hong Kong
Wan-Hsin LIU
Abstract: This paper analyses academia-industry linkages of the Hong
Kong (HK) electronics small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and
investigates the role of active innovation policies in this regard. It uses
data collected from a questionnaire survey in HK, focusing on three main
academia-industry linkages: academic institutions as training bases, as
innovation sources and as innovation partners for companies. Our analysis
results show that HK companies tend to rely on hiring highly-qualified
labour trained by academic institutions to gain access to advanced academic
knowledge. In contrast, they do not yet perceive academic institutions as
important sources or partners for their innovation activities; however,
their willingness to do so seems to be positively affected by the active
innovation policies on site
Keywords: academia-industry linkage, innovation policy, Hong Kong, China; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: L60,; O31,; O38,; R10; (follow links to similar papers)
31 pages, December 2009
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