Abstract
University-industry-government collaboration in China looks successful. Funding from companies occupies nearly 40 percent of university R&D expenditure and the sales of university spin-off companies amounted to 137 billion Chinese yuan in 2007. This paper discusses university-industry-government collaboration in China compared with that in Japan, after explaining the changes of the Chinese national innovation system in a transition to a market economy from a planned economy. The paper points out that the success factors could be strong incentives and pressures provided by the government, leads and supports of both the central government and local governments, flexible operational management of various systems, relatively technologically weak business sector and so on. Finally, some implications for university-industry-government collaboration in Japan are stated as concluding remarks.
