An Evaluation of the Coupling Coordination of Technological Innovation System in China’s Marine Biopharmaceutical Industry

Abstract

The marine biopharmaceutical industry (MBI) has been considered as an important part of the blue economy. The high-quality development of this industry depends on the high-level coordinated development of technological innovation system (TIS). In the present study, the coupling mechanism of industrial innovation input subsystem and innovation output subsystem was analyzed for the first time. On this basis, the development level and coupling coordination level of TIS in China’s MBI during 2008–2018 were empirically evaluated with the capacity coupling coordination model. Then, the obstacle factors were diagnosed and recognized with the obstacle model. The results showed that the innovation input index fluctuated at a low level in China’s MBI. The innovation output index has basically maintained a growth trend, whereas the quality of development was not high. Although the coupling coordination level of TIS showed a positive change as mild disordered → primary coordinated → well-coordinated, the development type of innovation system has changed from the lagging output of innovation into the lagging input of innovation. Insufficient input of innovation factors remained the main obstacle to the improvement of coordination level. Based on the above analysis, suggestions were put forward from the perspectives of policy and fund guarantees to improve the coupling coordination level in China’s MBI.

Coupling coordination relationship of forestry industry development and ecological environment: evidence from Heilongjiang Province

“…In contrast, other scholars use composite systems as evaluation objects to illustrate the relationship between the system or the various components that affect its operation. It includes water-energyfood, marine biopharmaceutical industry, multifunctional, complex land ecosystems, and economic development-social Frontiers in Environmental Science frontiersin.org development-government governance (Fu et al, 2023;Hu et al, 2023;Yin et al, 2023;Zhang et al, 2023;Zhao and Shi, 2023). Liu and Yang (2023) calculated the coupling coordination of forest ecology, economy, and social systems (Liu and Yang, 2023), but taking Changsha City as an example, the research area is relatively small.…”

The dynamic mechanism of scientific and technological innovation in China’s marine biomedical industry

“…The overall development level of the industry is not high with the lagging progress of drug research and development (R&D) in China, so the problem of disconnection between drug R&D and production & sales needs to be solved urgently. The STI is the key to solving the above problems and achieving high-quality development of the MBI (Fu et al, 2022). Therefore, it is of great theoretical value and practical significance to explore the dynamic mechanism of STI in China's MBI for solving the problem of insufficient innovation capability in the development of the industry.…”

“…Previous studies have mainly involved, for example, the application status of marine organisms in the field of medicine (Araujo et al, 2021;Hu et al, 2023;Gozari et al, 2021), the influencing factors and path of industrial development (Dai and Han, 2017;Fu et al, 2018a), the elements allocation of industrial development and the function mechanism (Fu et al, 2018b), and the evolution of related policies (Ji et al, 2022). The MBI is a technology-intensive industry, and STI is an important driving factor for the high-quality development of the MBI (Fu et al, 2022). In recent years, the innovation efficiency of China's MBI has been continuously improved, but it is still at a low level in general with a regional imbalance (Fu et al, 2020).…”