On the afternoon of December 5 PST, another seminar was successfully held on China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES) in Stanford University. This seminar was chaired by Professor Takeo Hoshi, Director of Japan Program, Shorenstein APARC and Professor Gi-Wook Shin, Director of Shorenstein APARC, and over 20 academics from Department of Economics, Management School and Knight Management Center attended the meeting. It was the second seminar where IQDS made an all-inclusive introduction to the CEES project and value of its data platform in Stanford University after the first one on November 28. This meeting further highlighted the value of the CEES survey as data platform for research on innovation and development in China.
At the meeting, the academics became interested in the descriptive statistics and basic empirical results of the CEES data owing to their further understanding of the CEES survey project. Especially, the innovation data of R & D investment, number of patents, R & D outsourcing, and sales of new products etc., drew great attention of high-profile scholars in Stanford University. The attending scholars continuously asked questions about increase of China’s innovation investment, rising wages of R & D and design personnel, China’s total factor increase and other aspects, and Professor Cheng Hong made explanations for them based on the CEES survey data.
Experts of IQDS also made a comprehensive discussion on the mismatch of human capital and its resulting “zombie firms” in China’s different ownership systems with Professor Takeo Hoshi based on the CEES survey data. It was highly praised by the founder of the “zombie firms” theory. So far, IQDS experts have been conducting cooperative research projects with Professor Hoshi on the questions above.
