Party Committee Office, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Wenjiang, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China.
School of Finance, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Wenjiang, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China.
PLoS One. 2023 May 19;18(5):e0285431. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0285431. eCollection 2023.
Prior studies ignore the impact of infrastructure on university technology transfer. High-speed rail, China's most significant infrastructure, has played an essential role in the economy and society. Using high-speed railway construction as a quasi-experiment and a large sample of Chinese universities for the 2007-2017 period, we investigate the impact of high-speed rail on university technology transfer. We provide extensive evidence that high-speed rail has a positive effect on university technology transfer. The finding remains valid after a battery of robustness tests. Mechanism tests find that high-speed rail can improve university technology transfer by promoting the interaction between universities and enterprises and improving enterprises' technology demand for universities. Further analysis shows that better intellectual property protection strengthens the effect of high-speed rail on university technology transfer, and the relationship between high-speed rail and university technology transfer is more prominent in the regions with underdevelopment technology trading markets. Our study suggests that high-speed rail is an important variable that affects university technology transfer.
先前的研究忽视了基础设施对大学技术转移的影响。高铁是中国最重要的基础设施，它在中国经济和社会发展中发挥了重要作用。我们利用高铁建设这一准自然实验和 2007-2017 年期间中国大量的大学样本，研究了高铁对大学技术转移的影响。我们提供了广泛的证据表明，高铁对大学技术转移有积极影响。在一系列稳健性检验后，这一发现仍然成立。机制检验发现，高铁可以通过促进大学与企业之间的互动以及提高企业对大学技术的需求，来提高大学技术转移。进一步的分析表明，更好的知识产权保护加强了高铁对大学技术转移的影响，而且在技术交易市场欠发达的地区，高铁与大学技术转移之间的关系更为显著。我们的研究表明，高铁是影响大学技术转移的一个重要变量。
