Title
The role of Chinese universities in enterprise–university research collaboration
Abstract
In this paper the role of Chinese universities in enterprise–university research collaboration is investigated. This study focuses on a special aspect of the collaboration—co-authored articles. The two cases are analyzed: (1) research collaboration between Baosteel Group Corporation and Chinese universities; (2) research collaboration between China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation and Chinese universities. The co-authorship data over the period 1998–2007 were searched from CNKI database, the largest Chinese publication and citation database. The main findings are as follows: the number of articles co-authored by enterprise and university scientists has been increasing rapidly; the share of co-authored articles has been growing; the authors from universities are more possible to be the first authors; as a whole, enterprise–university co-authored articles tend to receive more citations and get downloaded more frequently; a mathematical orientation emerges in the enterprise–university articles. To reveal and describe such a trend the methods of keywords analysis and co-occurrence analysis are applied. The Chinese government’s policy instruments and substantial supports for pushing and improving enterprise–university research collaboration are introduced and analyzed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0503-x
Scientometrics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Chinese universities,Enterprise-university research collaboration,Co-authored articles,Mathematical orientation
Corporation,Computer science,Public relations,China,Citation,Government
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
90
1
0138-9130
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.56
18
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liming Liang126023.17
Lixin Chen290.56
Yishan Wu310510.78
JunPeng Yuan4151.45