Qiao, Y., & Chen, G. (2022, August), How Do Engineering Application-oriented Universities Position and Strategize with External Actors? A Relational Dynamics Perspective  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40894

\bibitem{asee_peer_40894}
  Qiao, Y., \& Chen, G. (2022, August), \emph{How Do Engineering Application-oriented Universities Position and Strategize with External Actors? A Relational Dynamics Perspective}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--40894

Yingying Qiao and Guangpei Chen.  "How Do Engineering Application-oriented Universities Position and Strategize with External Actors? A Relational Dynamics Perspective".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/40894 Internet.  01 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_40894}
  Yingying Qiao and Guangpei Chen.
  "How Do Engineering Application-oriented Universities Position and Strategize with External Actors? A Relational Dynamics Perspective".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/40894 Internet.  01 May, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - The breakpoints of innovation chains, especially those between basic and applied research caused by imperfect systems and underlying mechanisms, has remained an outstanding problem in the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements. This is partly because industries and universities can not achieve smooth coordination and deep integration as they share different functional architectures and value propositions. Henceforth, China has set up a large number of so-called “Application-oriented Universities (AOUs)” in recent years, with an aim to solve aforementioned deficiencies and to promote local industrial economies. Nevertheless, while the central government has set a clear vision when proposing this term of AOUs, it failed to give an clear definition and connotation. As a result, AOUs were stuck with problems such as a lack of resources, vague positioning, conflicts with “Research-oriented Universities (ROUs)” directly affiliated to the central government and weak local embeddedness in their early stage of development and performed far below expectations. Until recently, AOUs has gradually found their positioning and ways of strategizing during the process of integration and experiment with industries, ROUs, and governments by forming a symbiotic and complementary relationship, and thereby made up for the breakpoints of innovation chains to a great extent.
Based on this, from the perspective of relational dynamics, this study focuses on how engineering AOUs participate in the process of transfer, transformation and diffusion of scientific and technological achievements. Taking Shanghai University of Engineering Science and Anhui Institute of Information Technology as research cases, this study discusses how AOUs in China manage to find suitable ways of positioning and strategizing with the policy guidance and resource support of two tiers of governments - central and local respectively. Also, this study explores the dynamic mechanisms underlying the change of relationships between AOUs and ROUS in the same region from competition to commensalism. This study clearly depicts the “bridge” function served by AOUs as well as the complementary effects between AOUs and ROUs in the process of transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements. After these, the conceptual connotation and functional architectures of AOUs can be further clarified, which can provide reference for the development of engineering AOUs and in China and even all over the world.

AU  - Yingying Qiao
AU  - Guangpei Chen
CY  - Minneapolis, MN
DA  - 2022/08/23
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - How Do Engineering Application-oriented Universities Position and Strategize with External Actors? A Relational Dynamics Perspective
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/40894
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--40894
ER  -