科研机构采购助力企业技术突破

Abstract

We focus on the interactive behavior between enterprises and purchasers in the process of government procurement, and propose and test the industry-university-research collaboration mechanism behind the impact of government procurement on breakthrough innovation from the perspective of scientific research institution procurement. By utilizing the exogenous shock of a company's first acquisition of scientific research institution purchase order, a staggered Difference-in-Differences (DID) model was constructed and it reveals that scientific research institution procurement significantly increased the proportion of breakthrough patents for the company. Mechanism analysis shows that scientific research institution procurement can effectively promote knowledge diffusion from research institutions to enterprises and enhance the level of research and development (R&D) cooperation between enterprises and research institutions. Finally, we also exclude potential channels of influence such as "signal effects" and "income increasing effects". Our findings provide preliminary policy basis for promoting the integrated development of technological innovation and industrial innovation.