Collaboration strategies and effects on university research: evidence from Chinese universities
Previous studies have provided inconsistent evidence pertaining to the relationship between universityindustry collaboration and university performance. This studys objective is to go beyond traditional viewpoints, which mostly confine universityindustry collaboration within a separate channel, to build the relationship between universityindustry collaboration overall channel characteristics and university research performance. In doing so, we define two collaboration strategies, collaboration breadth, which is the scope of different channels, and collaboration depth, which is the extent that universities deepen into different channels. Based on a comprehensive panel dataset of Chinese universities in mainland China in 20092013, we find that collaboration breadth and collaboration depth have a linear and curvilinear effect on academic research performance, respectively. Moreover, the interaction of collaboration breadth and depth shows a negative impact on academic research performance.
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