北京邮电大学经济管理学院

青年学者学术论坛第26期通知

题 目：科技型中小企业的政府支持与行政裁量

Title: Technology-based SMEs, Government support and Bureaucratic Discretions

主讲人：李纪珍 副教授、副院长 清华大学经济管理学院

主持人：闫  强 教授 北京邮电大学经济管理学院

时 间：2018年10月31日（周三） 下午14:00-15:30

地 点：经管楼204

报告内容简介：

It’s well documented that access to state-controlled resources could be a major advantage for economic actors in the market place, especially in the developing world. However, we know relatively little regarding which firms are best positioned to influence the state’s resource allocation decisions and how the formal structure of state agencies shape the opportunism for informal and even illegal dealings. We study a leading innovation subsidy program in China. Taking advantage of a policy change that opened the door for grant agents to exercise bureaucratic discretions in the program, we investigate how entrepreneurs vary in their capability to capture the state (i.e. accessing state funding with the assistance of state agents trespassing official policy guidelines). Rather than relying on subjective measures of state capture, we use internal archive data to trace the grant allocation process by the central government agency to document such activities. We find systematic evidence that firms vary in their capability to influence the subsidy program’s funding decisions. On the one hand, firms that are located in Beijing, applying for larger subsidies, and featured with state ownership are more likely to access the grant through informal, illicit means of bureaucratic discretion. On the other hand, formal bureaucratic structures define power hierarchy, report lines and interaction opportunities among state agencies and thus shape a given lower agency’s ability, on behalf of firms under its administration, to influence the central agency’s grant allocation decision. We further find that, in comparison to firms winning state funding on their own merits, state-capturing firms are associated with lower R&D intensity but larger grants, suggesting that our observed bureaucratic discretions reflect crony capitalism that reduces rather than enhancing social welfares.

主讲人简介：

李纪珍，博士，清华大学经济管理学院副教授，副院长，教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地——清华大学技术创新研究中心研究员兼副主任。1997年在清华经管学院及汽车系获得双学士学位，2002年在清华经管学院获得硕士和博士学位。主要研究领域：技术创新管理、科技政策、项目管理以及中小企业创新创业管理。作为项目负责人主持了20多个项目的研究，包括国家自然科学基金项目6项，科技部项目6项，企业咨询项目8项，参加过40多个项目的研究。正式发表/录用学术期刊杂志论文90余篇，包括SSCI论文15篇，CSSCI论文32篇。出版著作3部，翻译著作6部，参编著作8部（包括3本英文著作）。获得教育部人文社会科学一等奖一次，省部级科技进步二等奖2次，北京市哲学社会科学一等奖1次，清华大学教学成果一等奖1次，二等奖1次。

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主办单位：

北京邮电大学经济管理学院

大数据管理与智能决策研究中心

2018年10月25日