Contrast Research on Management Mode of China’s Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone: Based on Cases from Three Independent Innovation Demonstration Areas

Abstract

National independent innovation demonstration areas, along with their scale expansion, involve more and more administrative regions in China. Accordingly, institutional barrier has increasingly become a major resistance in their development process. By employing case study method, this article analyzes and compares management models of Beijing Zhongguancun, Wuhan East Lake and Shanghai Zhangjiang Independent Innovation Demonstration zones, and finds out differences in their institution setting, management authority, and advantage resources. The author proposes that each independent innovation demonstration area should choose its right model according to its own characteristics. What’ more, they should take institutional innovations to strengthen their communication with the central government, and enrich management tools, all of which finally enhance the ability of their endogenous innovation.

Keywords: National independent Innovation Demonstration Area; management model; case study; innovation