Competitiveness on Emerging Industries of Strategic Importance in Shanghai Research Center

Institute Information

Competitiveness on Emerging Industries of Strategic Importance in Shanghai Research Center, School of Management, and School of Social Sciences, Zhang Jianming, +86-21-67791040

Research Fields

Competitiveness on Emerging Industries of Strategic Importance in Shanghai Research Center has been set in 2013 by Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality as soft science research base. The objective of the Center is to focus research field of competitiveness on Emerging Industries of Strategic Importance, to serve Shanghai’s economic and social development from scientific research, government decision-making and business consulting services. Development objective of the Center is to build a professional think tank with high-level, which has a greater influence in the country and a certain reputation in the international community. The main functions of the Center are to provide policy advice for the government to develop policies of emerging industries of strategic importance; to provide development decision-making advisory reports and data information services for related enterprises; and regularly publish competitiveness evaluation index on emerging industries of strategic importance in Shanghai.

The head of the Center is Professor Ding Xiaodong. There are 20 researchers, of which 4 are professors, 6 are associate professors, 8 are lecturers (or assistant researcher), and 2 are assistants. Organizational structure of the Center:  administrative offices, research laboratory for development of emerging industries of strategic importance, research laboratory for competitiveness evaluation on emerging industries of strategic importance, and data center.

Since the Center has been established, it has assumed more than 10 specific research tasks and others soft science research key projects from the state and Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality. Currently, the Center is establishing a database for researching of emerging industries of strategic importance, and is exploring to carry out competitiveness evaluation study on emerging industries of strategic importance by using of patent maps, knowledge maps and other research methods.