报告题目：Chinese Firms Are Increasingly Leveraging Science for Innovation, and U.S.-China Geopolitical Tensions Have Accelerated the Process
报告人：Yanbo Wang 副教授
邀请人：张晓飞 助理研究员
报告时间及地点：2025年10月10日 14：00 经济管理学院B211
报告人简况：
Yanbo Wang is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the University of Hong Kong. He conducts research on technology-based entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on the impact of institutions on startup firms’ strategic choices, organizational forms and financial performance. His current projects map the entrepreneurial landscape in China and examine the design and effect of the country’s state innovation subsidy programs.
Dr. Wang has published in peer-reviewed academic journals such as Management Science, Research Policy, Strategic Management Journal and Administrative Science Quarterly. He serves on the editorial board of Administrative Science Quarterly and Strategic Management Journal.
Dr. Wang received BA in international relations from Peking University and Ph.D. in Management from MIT. Prior to HKU, he has taught at Boston University, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and the National University of Singapore, where he served as a doctoral program director in strategy and policy.
报告内容摘要：
Science plays important roles in driving technological innovation, as evidenced by the United States (U.S.) and other OECD countries. While China has become a leading producer of scientific knowledge, Chinese firms’ engagement with science remains underexplored, especially amid rising geopolitical tensions. Examining the past decade, we find that Chinese firms are increasingly leveraging science for innovation (evidenced by growth in patents that cite scientific literature—hereafter referred to as science-reliant patents) and participating in science production (reflected in rising domestic and international publications). Moreover, U.S. sanctions restricting Chinese firms’ access to proprietary technologies have accelerated their engagement with science. Firms on the U.S. Entity List have strategically deepened their involvement in scientific research, broadened the temporal range of scientific knowledge utilization, and pivoted toward non-U.S. scientific resources. Although China’s upward trajectory is striking, a considerable gap in absolute levels of science engagement between Chinese and U.S. firms remains. Our study highlights the evolving science-technology nexus for Chinese firms under geopolitical tensions, offering important policy insights for global innovation and competition.
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