How Public Demonstration Project Affects the Emergence of a New Industry:An Empirical Study on Electric Vehicle Demonstration Project in China
Public demonstration projects are receiving increasing attention,especially when some developing economies attempt to accelerate the emergence of new industries -- though being questioned -- through government interventions.This paper,therefore,aims to explore whether these demonstration policies can promote industrial emergence,at least in China; and what is the influential mechanism behind? This paper investigates China’s demonstration project on electrical vehicle – “Ten Cities Thousand Cars programme – through a survey with 1500 questionnaires.437 valid returns have been analyzed by using the structural equation modeling (SEM) method.The result shows that the public demonstration project is effective in terms of information,application,and product diffusion.In addition,the result also validates the model that illustrates how demonstration policies affect industrial innovation via testing and showing functions.This paper helps to better understand how demonstration policies intervene industrial emergence,and it will be of interest to policy makers,industrialists and academics.
innovation policies public demonstration project emerging industries innovation
Yuan ZHOU Hanwei ZHANG Mengyu DING Jun SU
School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, CHINA
国际会议
苏州
英文
379-385
2013-07-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）