How does government support promote firms' intellectual capital? An empirical analysis of micro-mechanisms

Zhongjuan Sun is an associate professor of Department of Business Administration, College of Business Administration, Capital University of Economics and Business. She is also a research fellow at both China Industrial Economy Research Institute and the ESG Research Institute at Capital University of Economics and Business. Her research interests include innovation management, science and technology policy, and technological acquisition. As Principal Investigator or Co-investigator, she has finished or is working on more than several projects, which funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China and British Academy.

Massimiliano Matteo Pellegrini is a associate professor of organizational studies and entrepreneurship behaviour at University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. From the same university, he also received his Ph.D. 2011. Previously, he was a senior lecturer in entrepreneurship at Roehampton University Business School. During his career, he covered several roles as permanent staff e.g. at Princess Sumaya University for Technology (Jordan) and University of West-London (UK) as lecturer. As visiting scholar, he was associated to the research program of the: University of Warsaw (Poland), Capital University of Economics and Business (CUEB) (China), Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) (China), University of Enlarger-Nuremberg (Germany), Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center at The Wharton School and University of Linz. He was the chair for the Strategic Interest Group of Entrepreneurship (E-ship SIG) at the European Academy of Management (EURAM) until 2018, where he coordinated a community of over 200 scholars and through which was possible to submit several research fund proposals. His research interests and publications are focused on entrepreneurial and organizational behaviours; he published more than 60 contributions focused on entrepreneurial, ethical and organizational behaviours in high-ranked journals e.g. Small Business Economics, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Managerial Psychology, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviours & Research, International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Small Business and Business Process Management Journal.

Cizhi Wang is currently a lecture of College of Business Administration, Capital University of Economics and Business, China. His research interests are entrepreneurship in family business, family entrepreneurship, and interaction of family members in entrepreneurial family. His work adopts the interpersonal or collective perspective and focus on the socialization process in an organization. His latest publication appeared in the Management Decision Journal, Journal of Family Business Management and the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Zhu Yu is a master’s student and a research assistant at the College of Business Administration, Capital University of Economics and Business. His research interests include management of science and technology policy, innovation and technological acquisition. As research assistant, he is working on the project of National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published some papers in some Chinese journals and presented studies in international conferences.