10 October 2025, Volume 21 Issue 5

    

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  Where Thinkers and Communicators Meet: An Inquiry into a Particular Episode of Intelligence History

  ZHU Biheng, MIAO Qihao

  Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(5): 2-10.

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  After World War II, the focus of international competition gradually shifted from the military sphere to the economic and technological domains, prompting many countries to construct economic and technological intelligence systems suited to their own needs. The Soviet Union, France, and Japan each pursued distinct explorations in this regard. In Europe during the 1970s, a relatively unique school of economic and technological intelligence emerged. Represented by Stevan Dedijer, this school advanced the concept of “social intelligence”, which exerted a profound influence on the economic and technological intelligence practices of developing countries. The academic recognition and dissemination of this idea owed much to the efforts of information scientist Blaise Cronin. This “thinker–communicator” mode of collaboration reveals a core theme in the development of economic and technological intelligence: how to construct bridges between scholarship and practice. Although Dedijer’s ideas lacked systematic writings, his advocating, training, and consulting services influenced other schools of thought, including those in French economic intelligence and American competitive intelligence, and highlighted the urgency of developing economic and technological intelligence in developing countries. Cronin, by contrast, ensured the preservation, circulation, and integration of these ideas into the academic literature system through academic research and documentation. This intersection of the two not only aligns with the principle that theory originates from practice but also holds unique significance. In the process of knowledge production and retention, the importance of systematic articulation and dissemination mechanisms is often no less significant than originality itself. Today, the development of economic and technological intelligence in China faces new challenges brought by the impact of artificial intelligence and the risks of geopolitics, while the division between theory and practice has become increasingly prominent. Against this backdrop, revisiting this episode of intelligence history and reflecting on how to reconstruct a system of “theories of economic and technological intelligence in practice” is of critical contemporary relevance.
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  Research on Evolutionary Game and Simulation of Credibility in Corporate Competitive Intelligence

  CHENG Siyuan

  Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(5): 11-19.

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  As market competition intensifies and corporate intelligence activities proliferate, enterprises have placed greater emphasis on the protection of intelligence assets, leading to heightened intelligence games among them. This paper aims to explore the evolutionary process and influencing factors of competitive intelligence game strategies among enterprises based on evolutionary game theory. By analyzing the evolutionary stable strategies of the game system and the influence degree of different parameters, and validating the results through numerical simulations, the research findings indicate that the initial state of strategic choices made by two competing parties and the changing trends of key parameters values have significant impacts on the evolutionary stable state. Specifically, an increase in the benefits of providing truthful information has a notable positive effect on achieving strategic equilibrium, whereas an increase in the benefits derived from providing false intelligence has a negative impact. Finally, relevant suggestions are proposed to facilitate cooperation in competitive intelligence among enterprises.
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  The Impact of Information Framework on Digital Natives’ Surrogate Seeking Behavior for Health Information

  ZHANG Xiao

  Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(5): 20-31.

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  Digital natives are a group with high information literacy and are more likely to engage in online health information seeking behavior. In order to meet the health needs of “information disadvantaged groups”such as the elderly and indirectly contribute to the development of the Healthy China strategy, this study investigates the impact of information framework on digital natives in different states of surrogate seeking intention and behavioral decision-making, aiming to explore what kind of information can promote frequent and scientific surrogate seeking. Using experimental methods, we conduct positive and negative information framework interventions on digital natives to explore whether the framing effect can promote their surrogate seeking intention and generate behavioral change decisions. The research results show that information framework can enhance the surrogate seeking intention of digital natives for health information; the gain frame is more effective than the loss frame in promoting the surrogate seeking intention of digital natives; information acceptance plays a mediating role in the impact of information framework on the surrogate seeking intention of digital natives; the surrogate seeking intention of digital natives can significantly promote the generation of their behavioral change decisions.
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  Research on the Construction of Agricultural University’s Biological Breeding Disciplines from the Perspective of Competitive Intelligence— A Comparative Study Based on the Discipline Construction of the A5 Alliance Universities

  ZHANG Wenxu, XU Qianqian, ZHANG Hongwei

  Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(5): 32-43.

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  In order to improve the quality and competitiveness of professional talent cultivation in biological breeding in China, and to better support the national seed industry security strategy and the construction of a strong agricultural modernization country, this study, from the perspective of competitive intelligence, utilizes methods such as literature review, interviews, and comparative research to analyze the differences in organizational models, curriculum design, and teaching approaches of biological breeding disciplines among A5 alliance universities. Additionally, it investigates the underlying issues in the construction of biological breeding disciplines in Chinese higher education institutions. Based on these findings, the study offers the following recommendations for the construction of biological breeding disciplines in agricultural universities: Initiate interdisciplinary talent training programs and reinforce the ethos of collaborative research between teachers and students; refine the curriculum of advanced interdisciplinary courses and heighten awareness of ethical considerations and intellectual property rights in science and technology; establish a seamless integration of industry, academia, research, and application in the talent cultivation process, and enhance the mechanisms for collaborative training between universities and enterprises.
  
  
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  A University Think Tank Focusing on China Studies —The Construction Characteristics and Implication of the Australian Centre on China in the World 

  ZHANG Jinjie

  Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(5): 44-54.

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  The Australian Center on China in the World (CIW) is a world-renowned university affiliated think tank with China as its research object. It has its own characteristics in organizational structure, personnel composition,operation mode, research purpose, research field, research method, achievement transformation, talent training,influence building and other aspects. This also makes CIW an excellent think tank with world influence. The construction and development of CIW has certain reference and enlightenment significance for the construction of the university affiliated think tanks in China, which is conductive to the optimization of the university affiliated think tanks in China in the aspects of target positioning, team optimization, financial support, brand building,and so on, and then enhance the world influence of China’s university think tanks.
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  The Origins, Development, and Characteristics of the United Kingdom’s Science and Technology Prize System

  TANG Lirong

  Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(5): 55-63.

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  The legalization of inducement prize mechanisms for science and technology in China remains at a preliminary stage of exploration. This paper examines the origins of the inducement prize system in the United Kingdom, with a particular focus on the “Longitude Act” as an institutionalized legal framework, its development and transformation during its validity, the role of the Board of Longitude, and the establishment and eventual abolition of the Longitude Prize. In the 21st century, the UK reintroduced inducement prizes, reflecting both the expansion of contemporary technology inducement prize and innovation competitions—extending from scientific challenges to broader societal issues—and the indispensable role of third-party organizations in their implementation. A comparative analysis of the system’s historical and contemporary development suggests that the diminishing direct role of government, the enhanced functions of specialized institutions, the establishment of evaluation committees, the use of media for project dissemination, and the clarification of assessment criteria have all served as key drivers in the evolution of the inducement prize system.