嘉宾介绍：黄灿，现任浙江大学管理学院教授，国家重大人才工程、国家社会科学基金重大项目首席专家，中国科学学与科技政策研究会青年工作委员会副主任委员，浙江大学创新管理与持续竞争力研究中心常务副主任，知识产权管理研究所联席所长。黄灿教授是世界经济论坛全球未来理事会成员、ISO56000创新管理国际标准技术委员会委员和全国知识管理标准化技术委员会委员。他还是创新管理领域影响因子最高的学术期刊之一的 《Technovation》的副主编和中国管理研究国际学会（IACMR）的会刊《Management and Organization Review》的副主编。黄灿教授的研究方向是创新和知识产权管理，科学技术政策分析。
讲座摘要：Literature has demonstrated that firms in emerging markets can invest in in-house R&D, purchase strategic assets abroad and learn by exporting to enhance their innovation capabilities. In this study, we focus on importing as an option for firms to build and accumulate technological competencies. We argue that firms’ importing and internal R&D activities are complementary for innovation performance in the emerging market context and such complementarity is contingent on external competition dynamics. We test our predictions using a large sample of Chinese firms from high-tech industries. We find that firms, which combine importing and in-house R&D efforts, achieve better innovation performance. The complementary effect is more salient for firms in industries with intense competition and with high-level inward foreign direct investment (FDI). In addition, we find that technology laggards are more likely to benefit from the complementary effect compared to technological leaders. Our findings highlight the importance of imports as a channel for emerging market firms to advance innovation agenda in their quest for competitiveness.
