讲座题目： Top Executives’ Research Experience and Corporate Innovation: Evidence from China
时间： 2021年6月18日上午9:00-11:00
地点： 文沁楼127会议室
主持人： 鲁元平 教授
主讲嘉宾： 蒋盛君
俄亥俄州立大学经济学博士、武汉大学经济与管理学院经济系助理教授
内容简介：
Since the 1980s, China has constantly reformed policies on the human resource management of its scientific research systems, gradually allowing professors and researchers to take part-time jobs or start their own businesses. However, the effects of such policies have rarely been explored in the literature. This study examines why, and to what extent, firms with executive researchers (defined as chairperson of the board and/or chief executive who were formerly professors or researchers) have better innovation performance. Based on manually collected data on top executive’s work experience, as well as data on patents and citations of Chinese listed manufacturing firms from 2001 to 2015, we find that firms with executive researchers have both higher quantity and quality of innovation output than firms without.