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Beijing Institute of Technology
Country: China (People's Republic of)
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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 910078
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  • Funder: UK Research and Innovation Project Code: ES/J008303/1
    Funder Contribution: 260,541 GBP

    Gaps remain in our understanding of how different combinations of business, technology and relationship strategies influence the growth of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), especially in the context of networked interactions by SMEs at regional, extra-regional, and sectoral levels. In each new round of economic and technological development, these strategies evolve, highlighting the importance of tracking in close to real-time the nuances of emerging enterprise strategies. In this project, we will probe differential strategies for SME growth and the role of regional clustering in the growth of innovative companies, building on new and unobtrusive methods of web mining to gain timely information about enterprise developmental pathways. Three key research questions will be addressed: (1) What differentiates the business strategies, technology pathways, and relationships of innovative companies that stay in business and grow? (2) How does regional clustering influence the business strategies, technology pathways, and relationships of innovative companies that stay in business and grow? (3) What are the contributions of policy-induced resources in supporting innovative companies that stay in business and grow? These questions will be probed through a mixed-methods approach using both quantitative and qualitative data. We focus our research on the emerging green goods sector (GGS) - comprising firms producing outputs that benefit the environment or conserve natural resources, with an international comparative element involving the UK, the US, and China. We will identify 300 GGS companies in each country established during the time period 2004-2007, for a total study sample of 900 companies. We will apply a stratified sample selection procedure, to match the distribution of the UK GGS sector by broad product classes with the US and Chinese GGS sectors. We will then combine structured and unstructured data sources to track the origins, business, technology, and relationship strategies, and performance outcomes of these firms through to 2011. Structured data will include corporate databases, corporate patents and publication records. Unstructured data will be derived from new methods of web-scraping and data mining the current and archived web-sites of the sample enterprises. Survival analysis will indicate the pathway of firms from the founding period through to the current period. Hierarchical cluster analysis will be applied to explore differential business strategies by the three countries and by types of metropolitan location and product class. Multivariate regression will relationships between high growth (and other) outcomes and business strategies, technological approach, and the role of regional relationships and policy instruments, controlling for country and other factors. Insights from US and Chinese enterprise growth strategies will be compared with those of UK firms. In the subsequent phase, we will undertake case studies with selected UK enterprises, to test and refine propositions about differential strategies, regional and policy interactions, and outcomes. Interviews (60) will be conducted with high growth firms, stable firms, and other key informants in five UK metropolitan areas. The interviews will examine what differentiates the most successful firms, trace the use and benefit of technology-related and other programmes, and probe for wider policy-related locational attractiveness. The project will be led by the University Manchester in partnership with Experian UK, Georgia Institute of Technology (US), and Beijing Institute of Technology (China). An active dissemination and engagement programme will be pursued with the academic and non-academic worlds, including mechanisms for advanced training and outreach to users in the business sector, including start-up firms and business support programmes, to university and other technology transfer managers, and to local and national policymakers.

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  • Funder: UK Research and Innovation Project Code: AH/W00948X/1
    Funder Contribution: 79,970 GBP

    The United Kingdom is home to 2,500 museums, of which 1,800 are accredited and formally registered, whilst there are 2,389 registered archives in the UK, of which 122 are national, 654 locals, and 324 university-based, with overall total of 4,889 heritage public institutions, largely on both public funding and income generated from visitors and tourists. China, by comparison, has an incredible growth in number of museums from 300 in 1978 to 3,589 museums in 2020, of which 3,054 are state-owned museums, of which 1,514 are public, whilst 535 are private. Museums in China have been classified as First Class, Second Class and Third Class, but only 851 museums have been accredited, yet they are very popular for educational activities and approximately 334,610 activities were organised during 2019. Boosting over 8,000 annual exhibitions, over 20 million items collections, most Museums are entry fee-free and boost 1 billion visits a year. Whilst Creative industries and digital heritage technology has been growing in the UK for a few decades, it is still growing, yet at fast pace in China. Since late 2004, the concept of the creative industries arrived in China. It was warmly welcomed in Shanghai and then subsequently adopted with some degree of caution in Beijing. In the years since, officials, scholars, practitioners, entrepreneurs and developers have exploited the idea of creative industries, and a range of associated terms, to construct an alternative vision of an emerging China. The Project will study how major R&D funding programmes in both countries are driving radical change with a dramatic rise in creating new digital cultural content, datasets, virtual tours, and experiences for user engagement in the museum and cultural heritage sectors. Through sectors surveys and case studies of key projects, partnerships and successful collaborations, the project will generate a series of new datasets, analysis of effective strategies, emerging knowledge, and skillsets to inform future UK-China partnerships in the digital and virtual heritage domains. The research team of the Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Global Heritage (CAUGH) at Nottingham Trent University, will undertake this project in collaboration with key Chinese partners with nationally-leading research team and knowledge in this field, including: Tong-Ji University's School of Architecture and Urban Planning; The School of Design & Arts at Beijing Institute of Technology; the Old Summer Palace Authority through the jointly established the CEntre of Virtual Intelligence for Cultural Heritage [CEViC]; and The Communications University of China through the recently developed China-UK University Museum Alliance. It will provide an important contribution to inform policy, investment and support programmes that help both governments address key Sustainable Development Goals in both countries, looking at Creative economy, Sustainable cities and infrastructures and, Sustainable preservation of cultural heritage.

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  • Funder: UK Research and Innovation Project Code: ES/J012785/1
    Funder Contribution: 329,302 GBP

    The advance of "Rising Powers" - including Brazil, China, Russia, and India - promises to be one of the major forces in global economic, political and social development in the 21st Century. Shifts in the distribution of technological and innovative capabilities underpin these changes. During the 20th Century, the United States along with Western Europe, Japan, and other established economies, led in the application of science and technology in fostering economic growth. In the present century, the Rising Powers are seeking to move beyond low-wage or resource-based strategies for development by expanding their science and technology capabilities. Critically, progress on this front requires not only building up R&D capacities and commercial applications, but also developing appropriate governance systems and institutional and corporate structures, building financial, human capital, management and related complementary assets, facilitating technological entrepreneurship, fostering demand and accessing international markets, and ensuring environmental, societal and political sustainability. If these countries are successful, it is likely that there will be major implications for the established developed countries. These include new opportunities through expanded markets, growth of talent pools and inventiveness, and prospects for scientific collaboration in addressing global environmental and societal challenges. The implications also include potential threats in terms of loss of technological leadership, increased international trade competition, shifts in the balance of military capabilities, and competition for scarce resources. Yet, if the Rising Powers (or at least some of them) fail in their efforts to develop and broadly apply advanced scientific and technological capabilities to further their economic and social development, growth expectations will be unmet or will proceed wastefully and societal tensions might rise, contributing to internal and international political instabilities. This project aims to address scholarly, management and policy issues related to the causes, sustainability and competitiveness of advanced technological development in driving the growth of Rising Powers, and in so doing also explore associated issues of governance and equity. Our technological focus will be on the emerging domain of nanotechnology. Our Rising Power country focus will be on China and Russia, with significant consideration of not only internal developments but also the interactions and implications of the growth of nanotechnology in these two countries for the UK and other developed and developing economies. The project will be undertaken by an interdisciplinary team, involving units of the University of Manchester in partnership with colleagues from China and Russia, with attention to capacity development, building a new research network, fostering training, and engaging users.

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 226282
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