Following the Approach of National Innovation System: Evidence from National Innovation Platform in China

Derives from the National Innovation System (NIS) approach, and based on some prominent weakness in China’s National Innovation System (NIS), this paper argues that China’s National Innovation Platform (NIP) program places more emphasis on the infrastructure of innovation and can be seen as an early stage to form a completed innovation system, and aims at combining the efforts and resources of enterprises, universities, research institutes, government etc to support innovation in certain industries in China and promote the translation of scientific and technological advances into practical productive forces. Therefore, NIP Program in China is a good practice following NIS approach, NIP effectively accomplishes, what is emphasized in NIS theory, the interaction and cooperation among different actors and it encourages the flow of knowledge in the process of innovation.