Mingfeng Tang

• Professor (Full) at Southwest University of Finance & Economics

What has been truly extraordinary today is that China has gone through the long history of the difficult journey and now finally has attained a development status that has to be recognized and appreciated. Millions of Chinese have now come out of poverty. Unemployment is decreasing and inequality will decrease in the course of time by managing it w...

Among diverse cooperation between China and Africa, China–Africa higher education cooperation is the most direct way to train talents for Africa. The cultivation of talents plays an important role in eliminating poverty, promoting the development of local society and achieving access to quality higher education. The China–Africa higher education co...

Digital technologies have brought fundamental changes in our work, lifestyle and behaviours. Many digital companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Baidu, Tencent and Ant Financial Corp. are able to create digital services or products to consumers. The increasing contribution of digital technologies to world GDP makes digital knowledge economy becom...

The collaboration of China with Africa started with infrastructure synergistic in 1976 by building the Tanzam Railway with the cooperation of China with Tanzania and Zambia. China has continued to support Africa with infrastructure development. Since China launched the “Belt and Road” initiative in 2013, it has been widely supported by many African...

This study aims to evaluate and, more importantly, examine the path of a successful young Chinese high-tech firm in upgrading and reconstructing its position in the global value chain (GVC) of the chip industry. We examine the existing GVC positions of chip firms, the motivations for the firm’s entry into the market, the choice of path to upgrading...

The low utilization of incubator resources has been subject to much academic attention within entrepreneurship research. This study explores how entrepreneurs’ overconfidence impacts the utilization of incubator resources and influences incubation performance. Based on interviews with 8 incubators and questionnaires from 184 entrepreneurs, the find...

This paper explores Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) and their chosen Business Incubation Models. The business models of TBIs have been largely ignored or seen as explained through stratification classifications (e.g. university incubator, virtual incubator etc.). Taking a qualitative approach, five next generation TBIs clustered in the Zhongg...

Previous studies indicate that individuals’ default behaviors on online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms greatly influence other borrowers’ default intentions. However, the mechanism of this impact is not clear. Moreover, there is scarce research in regard to which factors influence the relationship between an individual’s default behavior and...

Using the social network perspective and a case study of Chongqing Jiaotong University, this study analyzes the engagement of alumni entrepreneurs in the university student entrepreneurship development process in China. It employs primary data gathered through interviews of senior university managers, alumni and student entrepreneurs, and student s...

Social enterprises are considered to be at the heart of inclusive growth due to their emphasis on people and social cohesion that help effect social and economic transformation. Malaysia's New Economic Model (NEM) set out high income, sustainability and inclusiveness, as the foundation for transformation towards an advanced nation by 2020. In the T...

Traditional neo-classical market approach to regional integration/cooperation mainly focuses on trade and investment. The paper proposes an innovation system approach to regional integration/cooperation as an alternative that focuses on knowledge, learning, innovation, and competence (KLIC) building without excluding trade and investment. The under...

Bin Hu has been the general editor of Tianya Community, responsible for content quality, information security and public opinion research, since joining Tianya Community in 2000. He is also a visiting professor of South China University of Technology and Northeast Normal University, and vice president of Hainan Writers Association. Hu's representat...

Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) in China and India are compared by employing an analytical framework that combines national system of innovation (NSI) concept and a modified TBI integrative framework. Two research questions are investigated: (1) What are the management polices & practices of and incubation services offered by the TBIs in Chin...

Virtual communities play a significant role in improving communication and well-being during disasters. A theoretical model is developed to investigate the mechanism by which social capital contributes to individual and collective well-being through information exchange. Research hypotheses are tested using data from surveys and computer archives i...

Purpose – This paper aims to determine whether Chinese university entrepreneurship education matches the needs of undergraduates and whether the entrepreneurial interests and expectations of students who have received university entrepreneurship education differ from those of students who have not. The authors hope that the research findings can pr...

This study examines the effectiveness of government-supported incubator programmes in China. Findings highlight the importance of private-sector involvement in the incubators' governing body. Previous literature acknowledges the importance of government intervention in the entrepreneurial incubation process to overcome innovation market failure. Ho...

We present a comparative analysis of government managed Technology Business Incubators (TBI) in the west of China. 2 TBI in Chongqing and 2 TBI in Chengdu are chosen to make case studies. Our paper aims to find out whether government fully financed TBI is more expansion oriented than self financing TBI and whether the former performs better than th...

This paper characterizes the national innovation system (NIS) built up in China and analyses whether this NIS is helpful for China to catch up. Our research methodology is based on the combination of the theoretical contributions of the new growth theory and the NIS approaches, but also benefits from empirical evidence collected during an OECD rese...

We present a comparative case study of Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) in two major emerging economies in Asia - China and India. We employ an integrative analytical framework that combines three broad categories of indicators (originally developed by developed by Mian, 1997): Management policies and practices; Services and their impacts; and...

In this paper, we aim at providing a critical appraisal of academic research valorisation models adopted in three regions in the world: the Provincia di Milano in Italy, the Technology-Region Karlsruhe in Germany and the Chinese municipality of Chongqing.Our first originality consists in developing a literature-based analytical grid to characterise...

From the perspective of the national innovation system (NIS), this paper analyzes how China has developed an indigenous innovation system for improving competitiveness, and assesses the impact of the system on China’s innovation capability. We find that the indigenous innovation system does not conclusively improve innovation, but it facilitates kn...

This paper compares the management of university incubators in China and France and provides some insights into the way university incubators should be managed to enable the creation of successful start-ups. By analysing the contexts for their emergence in both countries, we assess the similarities and differences between the two systems and provid...

In this paper we aim at providing a critical appraisal of academic research valorisation models adopted in three regions in the world: the Provincia di Milano in Italy, the Technology-Region Karlsruhe in Germany and the Chinese municipality of Chongqing. Our first originality consists in developing a three-step analytical framework to characterise...

The regulations on accelerating science and technology(S&T) findings conversion of 1999 impact on university research and technology transfer in China was analysed. The results show that the regulations have both positive and negative effects, i.e., it can increase university research and development(R&D) expenditures, patents, university-affiliate...

Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy 2009 This presentation was part of the session : Roundtables on Organizations of Science and Innovation Technology business incubators (TBIs) are widely viewed as a promoter of regional/national innovation and competitiveness. Both developed countries and developing countries have established univ...

This paper discusses what kind of national innovation system (NIS) is built up in China and whether the NIS is helpful for China to catch up. Our research methodology is based on the combination of new growth theory with the NIS theory and our involvement in OECD research project about Chinese NIS. We find that Chinese NIS is composed of two comple...

Presented at the GLOBELICS 2006 conference in India during 4-7 October 2006. Session III.6 FDI: Spillovers and Competitiveness

This paper will examine whether national technology transfer centers (NTTCs) function as an effective policy instrument in promoting the commercialization of university research findings. On the basis of 7 sampled universities, we place our research focus on the role of NTTCs, the performance of NTTCs and the determinants of effectiveness of NTTCs....