1. Industry Analysis and Decision-making
The research interests of the Research Center focus on the application system and complexity theory, methodology and game theory, complex network, system simulation and other methods that used to study industrial structure, industrial organization, industrial policy issues. Its research interests highlight the regional characteristics of the Pearl River Delta and Guangdong Province, and have the interdisciplinary characteristics of arts and sciences.
The Research Center has carried out its research for two decades since 1986, and it has engaged in a number of research projects supported by NNSF (one of the research results got award, and one is evaluated as the Outstanding Research Result), NSSF, Philosophy and Social Science Foundation by MOE, Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education, and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, etc. The research team of the Center has produced a lot of papers, many of them are included in SCI, EI and ISTP index. In addition, its research team has produced fruitful research outcomes, including: In 1993, an paper related to industrial complexity construction was published in the IEEE System, Journal of Human and Control; the monograph titled in System Engineering Theory and Practice published in 1993 was awarded the Second Prize of the First Humanities and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement of 1979-1990 by the State Education Commission; after 2000, the center transferred its research focuses to industrial organization and industrial policies and targeted at industrial clusters; in 2002, as the principle investigator, the Center hosted the relevant research project supported by NSSF, and published a monograph entitled “Study on the evolution of Taiwanese-funded IT industry structure: a system framework”, and in 2004, by receiving a notice from the National Social Science Office, it was informed that this result was selected to be reported to the central leadership of the State Council; in 2002, a paper entitled “Analysis of the Industrial Structure of Taiwan-funded Enterprise Clusters in Dongguan published in the China Industrial Economics Journal got 50 more citations by peers; in 2003, an English paper on the complexity analysis of industrial policies was published on international journal; in 2004, the AGENT simulation model for Taiwanese investment decision-making in the mainland was produces; and in 2005, a complex network analysis method for industrial competitive relations was proposed.
2. Industrial service industry and knowledge-intensive service industry
The Research Center also focuses on the theory and methodology of applying systems science and knowledge technology, to conduct studies on how to use existing advantages from the perspective of system, integrate existing resources, and construct an industrial service system and knowledge-intensive service industry system with clear hierarchy, reasonable structure, perfect function and benign interaction, which has the characteristics of interdisciplinary theory of arts and sciences.
In this regard, the Research Center has conduct related research activities from 1999, and engaged in a number of research projects supported by NNSF, Philosophy and Social Science Foundation by MOE, Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education, the major consultant project of Guangdong province, Guangdong Provincial Soft Science research foundation, etc. As for the research team of the Center, Researcher Zhang Zhengang and Professor Wan Jiangping were selected to be the Directors of the International Society for Knowledge and Systems Science (ISKSS) in 2003. Researcher Zhang Zhengang was granted by MOE in July 2002 as an expert in the review panel of the third China University Humanities and Social Sciences Research Awards; in December 2001, he was granted by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee as review panel member of the national GCT-ME (Master of Engineering) exam. Professor Wan Jiangping, in 2006, he was selected as a member of the Review Panel of the MOE's Degree and Graduate Education Development Center, and at the same time, he was selected as a judge of the Judging Panel of the Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA2006). In terms of the Center’s research outcomes, it has completed produced a number of research results, including: Research on Accelerating the Development of Guangdong's Industrial Service Industry, Strategic Research on Chinese Research Universities as the Main Body of Knowledge Innovation, Guangzhou International Bio-Island Science and Technology Development Planning Research, Research on the Countermeasures to Accelerate the Development of Higher Education in Guangdong, Information Consulting Service Platform for SME Social Service System, and Warfield Complex Work Program Research on Software Quality Management, etc. In addition, the research team has published a series of monographs, including Strategic Research on Knowledge Innovation in Chinese Research Universities, and Research on Software Process Improvement Complexity Work Procedures. In 2006, the paper entitled in Research on Software Production Support Structure was quoted by Prof. Warfield, a representative scholar of the structural complexity school, in his monograph of Introduction to System Science published by Chinese Academy of Science and Technology in English version.
3. Industrial investment decision-making and industrial competitiveness
The Research Center is dedicated to study on industrial sustainable development and investment decision-making through applying theory and methods including modern math, information science, systematic science and behavior science. It focuses on the following characteristics:
(1) Emphasis on the application of modern mathematics, information science and systems science theory and methods to study industrial sustainable development and investment decision-making issues. Research areas include national economic quantitative analysis methods, industrial technology innovation and competitiveness evaluation, and investment management and risk control methods.
(2) Highlight the demonstration, modeling, and digitization of modern economic, financial, and international trade, as well as attach importance to the application of research in China's national economy and financial markets.
(3) The application of behavioral decision theory in corporate financial decision-making, especially project investment decision-making, including: (a) behavioral factors and their impacts analysis in investment decision-making; (b) investment decision-making behaviors of different industries and their impacts on industrial competitiveness analysis.
The quantitative economic analysis method is an important analytical tool for national economic research. In recent years, due to the increase in uncontrollable factors in industrial economic investment management and risk control, and also considering the increasing influence, economic entities are facing with various problems raised from decision-making. In this regard, our research seems to be very important either from the perspective of industrial economic theory study and quantitative analysis method, or the need for economic management.
The application of behavioral decision theory in corporate financial decision-making is a frontier research in the field of decision-making. The members of the Research Center began to conduct related research in 2004, and has implemented corresponding research activities and produced certain achievements. In the recent years, the team has engaged in two projects as the principle investigator, published 10 papers in core journals or statistical database and three conference papers (one of which is an international conferences paper included in conference proceedings), and participated in international training courses by leading international research institutions in the field, to learn the experimental economic methods.
