About the Lecture

With the gradual transformation of China’s economic development  from the factor-driven model to the innovation-driven one, improving innovation capacity has become a key concern of the country. How to promote the market-oriented docking between enterprises and universities with innovation demand is a problem that governments at all levels are attempting to solve. At the same time, the overly close relation between some universities and enterprises has triggered worries: people fear that the cooperation between enterprises and universities will affect the quality of university researches. Based on the panel data of 59 universities directly under the Ministry of Education from 2010 to 2015, this study intends to analyze the interrelation between the university horizontal project cooperation and the research efficiency of university, as well as the impact of university intellectual property transfer on their own research efficiency.

About the Lecturer

Lai Yanzhao is PhD of George Washington University and assistant professor of Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, School of Economics and Management. His main research directions include scientific and technological transformation in universities, university entrepreneurship, scientific and technological innovation policy, and financial technology.