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  • WU Yingying, ZHOU Shaodan
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(4): 2-12.
    During the third wave of industrial development, Japan’s unique tacit knowledge-driven model achieved a remarkable success by nationwide collaborative efforts. The lineage of Nobel laureates at Kyoto University and the success of the Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) project underscored the pivotal role of apprenticeship-based laboratories and the spirit of craftsmanship in achieving break through innovation. Tacit knowledge, through socialization transmission and externalization mechanisms, became the foundational logic of Japan’s “technological nation-building”. However, the highly context-dependent nature of tacit knowledge also created a “negative legacy” : disciplinary barriers hindered knowledge combination innovation, and international collaboration was constrained, resulting in Japan’s limited output of explicit knowledge in emerging fields. In the era of artificial intelligence, this tension has become more pronounced. Although generative AI can accelerate the externalization of tacit knowledge, it cannot replace the core role of humans in complex decision-making, interdisciplinary innovation, and collective cognition. The rise of dark knowledge further challenges the traditional tacit-to-explicit knowledge transformation model and highlights the urgent need to develop a collaborative paradigm between human tacit knowledge and AI explicit capability. At the recently concluded “Pujiang Innovation Forum—Shanghai Forum on Science of Science·2025 International Science, Technology and Innovation Think Tank Forum”, multiple experts unanimously pointed out that innovation lies not only in the accumulation of explicit knowledge, but more crucially, in the deep sedimentation of tacit knowledge and the effective transformation of implicit knowledge into explicit knowledge. This study reminds key insights for intelligence professionals at a time when knowledge sovereignty is undergoing profound reconstruction. They must recognize the strategic value of tacit knowledge and its irreplaceable role in forecasting trends, integrating cognition, and stimulating innovation. At the same time, they should actively harness AI tools to enhance knowledge externalization while preserving human subjectivity and value judgment in the processes of integration and collaboration, so as to avoid the alienation of innovation under the domination of technological nationality. Only in this way can we truly grasp the deeper driving force and direction of scientific and technological innovation.
  • HUANG Xinyi, LIU Wenchang
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(6): 32-43.
    Amidst the global digital wave reshaping international trade patterns, cross-border e-commerce is undergoing a paradigm shift from factor-driven to innovation-driven development. This study employs Chinese cross-border e-commerce enterprises as research subjects, constructing a dynamic threshold evolution model grounded in self-organized criticality (SOC) theory to systematically unravel the nonlinear mechanisms through which industrial chain innovation element agglomeration enhances corporate competitiveness. Empirical findings reveal: (1) Cross-dimensional synergy of innovation elements within industrial chains significantly amplifies corporate competitiveness, demonstrating multiplier effects from deep integration of innovation chains and industrial chains; (2) Increased international network density as a moderating variable elevates marginal effects
    of innovation element agglomeration, confirming globalization embeddedness as a catalyst for innovation diffusion; (3) Market access demonstrates significant dual threshold effects. When institutional barriers transcend the critical threshold, self-organized criticality evolution is triggered, resulting in exponential leaps in the impact of industrial chain innovation levels on corporate competitiveness. This research provides theoretical insights for cross-border e-commerce enterprises to overcome developmental bottlenecks.
  • ZHANG Xiuni, ZHANG Wei, HU Qimeng, YANG Chengkai
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(4): 45-54.
    This study takes the typical intelligence research products of well-known foreign think tanks as research cases, and analyzes several aspects such as the information sources, release time, and utilization characteristics of the open source information they adopt. It summarizes the methods and processes of developing and utilizing open source information, and based on current needs and the characteristics of open source information, it proposes a process for the development and utilization of foreign open source information in China’s intelligence work, with the aim of providing certain references for the research of open source intelligence in China.
  • ZOU Zheqi
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(4): 35-44.
    Since the China-US friction, trademark litigation has become a significant factor restricting the overseas development of Chinese enterprises. During the period from 2019 to 2023, the number of trademark litigation cases involving China has been on the rise, with Chinese enterprises often being defendants and the rate of default judgments remaining high. This predicament stems from both internal and external factors: externally, there are challenges such as targeted policies from the US government, judicial environment bias, and differences in legal systems; internally, there are shortcomings like lagging strategic awareness, incomplete management systems, and weak litigation response capabilities. Addressing these issues requires a systematic solution, including optimizing trademark layout and enhancing litigation response capabilities at the enterprise level, and at the national level, building a multi-level rights protection service system for cross-border cases.

  • Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(4): 1-1.
    在推进中国式现代化的征程中,科技是开路先锋,上海作为“先头部队的尖兵部队”,肩负着抢占全球创新制高点的重任。面对技术变革风起云涌、机遇窗口转瞬即逝的复杂局面,战略敏捷性成为上海加快建设全球科创中心的核心能力。而开源科技情报,正为锻造这一能力提供了关键支点。
  • SONG Xiang, WANG Xiaohui
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(4): 26-34.
    With the development of green economy, China has formulated a number of policies on the promotion and application of new energy vehicles. The market share of new energy vehicles is increasing, and it is very important to identify their competitors and competitive products referred to as “competitiors”. The purpose of this study is to construct a competitive product identification model for new energy vehicles by using multi-source reviews with complementary advantages. The co-occurrence analysis method and the sentiment analysis method are used to construct a new energy vehicle competitive product identification model consisting of four modules: data collection and processing, preliminary screening of competitive products, identification of competitive products and analysis of competitive products. The Xiaomi SU7 new energy vehicle is taken as an example for empirical analysis. Using this model to analyze the competitive products of Xiaomi SU7, on the one hand, the advantages and disadvantages of Xiaomi SU7 are identified, and on the other hand, the core competitive products of Xiaomi SU7 are identified, and the effectiveness of the model is verified.
  • CHEN Yu
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(6): 53-62.
    The copyright compliance of training data for generative artificial intelligence represents a common challenge in global industrial governance. This paper takes the U.S. court rulings in the 2025 cases of Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta as its starting point, employs a combination of case analysis and comparative legal research to systematically deconstruct the judicial application logic of the fair use doctrine in the context of generative artificial intelligence training data. The study finds that although the U.S. judicial practice acknowledges the rationality of using AI training data in individual cases, its adjudication highly depends on specific case facts, exhibiting significant characteristics of case-by-case discretion. Notably, judges have universally expressed profound concerns about potential market impacts in their rulings and have reserved room for adjustment in future jurisprudence at the legal theoretical level. This judicial model, characterized by the coexistence of limited exemptions and systematic uncertainties, provides an important reference for the governance of artificial intelligence data.
  • WEI Jianliang, KE Weikang, DENG Danqing, JIANG Fen
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(3): 37-45.
    Quantitative evaluation of science and technology (S&T) policies implementation helps assess effectiveness of current policies and provides a data basis for future policymaking. This study examines 81 policies documents related to the “50 New S&T Policies” issued in Zhejiang Province from 2019 to 2022. Using content analysis, it evaluates implementation quantitatively from the dimensions of policy level, policy tools, and policy content. Findings show significant differences in the number of policies and public announcements between provinces and cities in terms of policy level. There are also significant differences, in terms of policy tools, in the average distribution of supply-oriented tools, demand-oriented tools, and environmental-oriented tools; In terms of policy content, the supply-oriented policies, in the major policy categories, account for the highest proportion, reaching 48%, and the policy subcategories of public services and capital investment have a relatively high proportion. Finally, the study suggests expanding the coverage of policies formulation and introduction, enhancing the continuous implementation level of policies, strengthening the content of demand-oriented policies, and improving the integrated form and measures of policies.
  • Rob van Kranenburg(author) , YAN Ran(translator-editor)
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(6): 15-21.
    Mr. Rob van Kranenburg is a speaker at the “2025 Shanghai Competitive Intelligence Forum”. With his authorization, this article is written based on his speech and the content of his new book Statecraft and Policymaking in the Age of Digital Twins: Digital Democracy and the Internet of Things. Against the backdrop of the convergence of technologies such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and 6G communications, this article explores the profound transformation of contemporary urban governance from the “smart city” to the “wise city”. The article first analyzes how cities, in an environment where objects, machines, and artificial intelligence are deeply interconnected, can upgrade governance models by leveraging data perception and systemic decision-making. It then examines the dilemmas and challenges faced by social governance in today’s digitalization process—particularly the limitations of the Western “entrepreneurial government” model and its intrinsic association with the rise of populism. Finally, the article proposes a pathway for the evolution from an “entrepreneurial government” toward a “co-creative ecosystem”, emphasizing a new governance paradigm centered on “event identity”, key value indicators (KVI) , and a polycentric governance architecture. The article argues that the future of urban governance is not merely a matter of technological integration but also a deep fusion of cognitive frameworks, institutional designs, and humanistic values. At its core is the construction of a systemic decision-making mechanism that is both responsive to real-time data and grounded in public rationality. This governance mindset offers new insights and reference points for research and practice in urban competitive intelligence: as cities and industries operate in increasingly technological and real-time modes, competitive intelligence must not only capture surface-level innovation trends but also penetrate the underlying logic of systemic transformation. It must not only analyze data but also understand the governance structures and social risks behind the data. Such systemic thinking will empower intelligence analysts to grasp the coupling relationship among information, power, and value in the technology driven city of the future, providing deeper cognitive support for strategic decision-making. It must be noted that the discussions in this article are based on the European context, and the relevant conclusions or viewpionts may have certain contextual limitations.
  • ZHANG Li
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(6): 22-31.
    Cities serve as crucial strategic spaces for modern intelligence work. This study on programmable urban intelligence empowerment aims to deepen the understanding of intelligence service models and operational mechanisms within the context of emerging urban spatial forms, and offer theoretical support and practical insights for intelligence practices in the era of digital and intelligent urban governance and development. First, by integrating the programmable characteristics of cities with the digital development trends of intelligence work, the study systematically analyzes their coupling relationship and mutual needs. Second, it explores the highlights and leverage points, key areas and challenges of programmable urban intelligence empowerment, clarifying the underlying logic and strategic levers of such empowerment. Finally, it proposes practical paths from three dimensions of anchoring empowerment tasks, strengthening empowerment support, and cultivating empowerment ecosystem. The findings reveal that the practice of intelligence empowerment in programmable
    cities can be advanced through multiple synchronous and asynchronous pathways “synch ronous + asynchronous” to anchor empowerment tasks; through combined technological and data-driven approaches “technology + data” to consolidate empowerment support; and through adaptive and reform-oriented measures “adaptation + reform” to nurture the empowerment ecosystem.
  • Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(3): 1-1.
    在对传统“创新三角”结构演变的观察与研究的基础上,思考构建了一个具有高敏感度和预警能力的情报监测框架。相信这对于关注前沿科技和创新的读者们,特别是科技情报工作者来说是有较高启示价值的。
  • REN Xiaobo, SHI Wen
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(3): 2-13.
    In recent years, technological innovation has exhibited unprecedented complexity and uncertainty, and traditional frontier technology monitoring systems have repeatedly failed to anticipate disruptive transformations. The explosive emergence of ChatGPT, for example, revealed its revolutionary impact, yet it was scarcely predicted by mainstream analytical frameworks prior to its debut. This highlights the limitations of innovation monitoring methods based on explicit indicators such as academic papers and patents when confronted with increasingly latent and fragmented emerging technologies. As the geometry of innovation continues to undergo profound restructuring, building a monitoring system adapted to the new innovation ecosystem has become a critical issue for safeguarding national technological competitiveness and industrial security. A high-sensitivity, early-warning intelligence monitoring framework can not only identify potential directions of frontier innovation but also provide timely innovation intelligence for government and corporate decision-makers, enabling them to make precise frontier innovation deployments and resource allocations in the face of fierce global technological competition.
  • SU Yu, SHI Wen
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(6): 2-7.
    From October 21 to 23, 2025, the 2025 Shanghai Competitive Intelligence Forum (SCIF 2025) was successfully held in Shanghai. The forum, themed “Intelligence for Future Cities” brought together experts and scholars from various fields such as international organizations, research institutions, and industry to jointly explore the cutting-edge trends in urban governance and development in the new era. The event not only showcased applications of technologies such as artificial intelligence in city management but also focused on systematic enhancement of urban cognitive capabilities, emphasizing the profound value brought about by the integration of technology and decision-making mechanisms. Building an urban cognition system centered on technology and intelligence is becoming a key pathway to strengthen strategic capacities and sustainable competitiveness of cities. This article reviews the forum’s core topics and insights, offering an intelligence-driven
    perspective to interpret the logic and trends of future urban development, providing useful ideas and references for city policymakers, researchers, and practitioners in related industries.
  • Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(5): 1-1.
    在市场经济中,科技情报既是事业也是产业,科技情报服务既有公共产品、准公共产品,也有为市场主体提供的私产品。科技情报产业是科技服务业的重要组成部分之一。科技服务业是运用现代科学知识和技术手段。围绕科技创新全链条发展、科技成果高效率转化,向社会提供智力服务的新兴产业,是现代服务业的重要组成。国家高度重视科技服务业的发展问题。
  • GAO Daobin
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(3): 20-28.
    This paper enriches the theoretical foundation for identifying enterprise competitors, expands the methods for identifying enterprise competitors, and provides reference for enterprises to analyze the competitive situation. Firstly, the VRIO model is introduced to design a “target enterprise competitor” technology competition gap measurement index based on patents from four aspects: value, scarcity, inimitability and organization. Secondly, classifies competitors into single type, cross type, combined type, and comprehensive type, and further construct a comprehensive competition index indicator to achieve inter group comparison of competitors of the same type of competitors under the same dimension. Finally, refine the granularity of competitor analysis and analyzes the technological competitive elements of competitors in detail. Targeting FY company in the drone field, identifies its competitors. The results indicate that the enterprise competitor identification method guided by the VRIO model enriches the theoretical support for enterprise competitor identification. It also assists target enterprises objectively recognize the multidimensional resource gap between themselves and their competitors, provides decision-making support for leveraging their strengths and avoid weaknesses, and formulate technology layout strategies.
  • QIAN Hong, LI Yue, DANG Hui
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(6): 44-52.
    In an era marked by global intensifying competition and rapid advances in digital and artificial intelligence technologies, provincial science technology information institutions must explore new development strategies. This research undertakes a comprehensive investigation of 30 provincial-level science and technology information institutions, systematically evaluates their data resource management, platform infrastructure development, and service implementation practices to diagnose existing barriers in the innovation and development process of provincial science and technology intelligence institutions. Drawing upon Qian Xuesen’s systematic science philosophy, the study formulates a “six-dimensional integrated” developmental architecture: multi-sourced data aggregation, intelligent service platform construction, diversified service content, personalized service provision, adaptive service modeling, and ecosystem-oriented system development, thereby establishes a holistic roadmap for institutional advancement in the digital and intelligent age.
  • ZHI Fengwen, DING Buyue, CHENG Zhenchao, ZHENG Yanning, SHEN Tao
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(4): 13-25.
    In view of the differences between the existing empirical studies on the influencing factors of executive environmental scanning behavior, a comprehensive analysis of the relevant empirical studies in this field is of great significance for the development of organizational decision-making and future research on environmental scanning. This study employs meta-analytic methods, utilizing a random-effects model to synthesize 68 relevant empirical studies from both domestic and international sources. The analysis focuses on 28 influencing factors of executive environmental scanning behavior and the corresponding 223 independent effect values. Through heterogeneity tests, publication bias assessments, and subgroup analyses, the study explores the reasons for inconsistencies among the included studies, thereby evaluating the impact of moderating variables. The results indicate that among the influencing factors of executive’ environmental scanning behavior across environmental, organizational, and individual dimensions, 18 factors have a positive impact. Key factors include managerial orientation, perceived strategic volatility, and perceived information quality. These factors are critical in influencing environmental scanning behavior. Additionally, the level of national economic development plays a moderating role in affecting organizational environmental scanning behavior.
  • GUO Qingxin
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(3): 29-36.
    In today’s globalized economic environment, the trend of rapid development in fintech is evident. The widespread application of technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, and big data in the financial sector poses unprecedented challenges to financial security. With the accelerated iteration of artificial intelligence technology and its explosive growth in applications, the consequences of tail risks, if they occur, will be catastrophic. As an effective analytical tool, the intelligence methods help identify and predict potential tail risks in the process of artificial intelligence application. By early detection of these risks, we can take timely measures to respond, thereby ensuring the robustness and security of the financial system and safeguarding the healthy development of China’s financial industry.
  • HUANG Xiaolin, WU Tingyu, ZHOU Haiqiu, LI Weisi
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(3): 14-19.
    The explosion of large language models technology represented by ChatGPT has refreshed our understanding of artificial intelligence technology, impacted and reconstructed many traditional industries. This article focuses on the impact of large language models on intelligence analysis work, compares the two processes of intelligence analyst training and large language model construction, analyzes the similarities and differences between intelligence analysts and large language model. The study finds that large models are more like anthropomorphic intelligence analysis tools, but intelligence analysts have characteristic advantages that cannot be replaced by current large language models, such as emotions, sensations, bounded rationality, flexibility, and discernment. At the same time, the application of large language models in intelligence work will lead to the restructuring of the intelligence analysis process. The restructured process will still be dominated by intelligence analysts, but large language models will be involved in each stage to varying degrees.
  • ZHANG Yu , ZHU Shiqin
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(3): 46-56.
    How to coordinate the prospective governance of serving both development and security of science and technology has become an urgent issue to be solved for the high-quality development of scientific and technological decision-making consultation services. Taking the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University as an example, this paper explores the operational mechanism of integrating and utilizing open-source intelligence to serve the prospective governance of development and security of science and technology. It also puts forward suggestions from aspects of strengthening the top-level design of strategic intelligence services, enhancing the ability to discover scientific and technological information resources, promoting collaborative innovation with internal and external institutions, and optimizing the management system for the transformation of research achievements, providing references for the institutions of scientific and technological intelligence in China transforming into think tanks and serving development and security of science and technology more effectively.
  • ZHU Biheng, MIAO Qihao
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(5): 2-10.
    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.
  • CHENG Siyuan
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(5): 11-19.
    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.
  • LE Yiting, YU Xinyin
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(4): 55-63.
    In the evolving judicial landscape where the logic of “information as evidence” is increasingly emphasized, library and information institutions are gradually transforming from traditional information intermediaries into litigation support actors in intellectual property (IP) disputes. Using three representative cases involving the Shanghai Library, this paper examines how such institutions contribute to evidentiary construction in trademark infringement through generic term validation, in design patent infringement through image-to-text retrieval, and in utility patent infringement through specialized data acquisition. It systematically analyzes the practices by which information is effectively transformed into admissible evidence and distills four operational principles: Timeliness of Retrieval Boundaries, Priority of Source Credibility in Literature Acceptance, Precise Semantic Translation, and Optimization of Collaborative Interfacing. The study offers a practical paradigm for expanding the judicial support functions of library and information institutions, and provides a strategic reference for professionals seeking to maintain technical relevance and institutional value amid the growing prevalence of AI in the digital era.
  • DENG Hua
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(3): 57-64.
    As an important content of brain science, brain atlas is the basis for studying the structure, function and regulation of the brain. China and the United States have launched national brain science programs, which brain atlas research has been taken as the focus. In addition, this paper uses bibliometrics and content analysis to benchmark the basic research in China and the United States. The results show that under the orderly guidance of the strategic layout, the brain atlas research in the United States has successively completed cell classification and typing, brain atlas of different species, etc., while the brain atlas research in China lacks of a step-by-step and goal-by-goal strategic layout. In terms of basic research, there is a significant gap between China and the United States, with the United States having strong scientific research strength and world-class research results in brain atlas research. In China, the research on brain atlas is basically in the early stage of development, and the research force has not yet been formed, the research results need to be accumulated urgently. Through benchmarking, two implications are formed for the future rapid consolidation of brain atlas research foundation in China.
  • XU Yuheng
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(6): 8-14.
    The rapid diffusion of digital technologies is profoundly transforming urban governance. Digital governments and smart cities have become central policy paradigms for improving administrative efficiency, rationalizing public service provision, and enhancing citizens’ quality of life. Digital government deploys big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and related tools to strengthen the efficiency and transparency of public services and promote the intelligent and evidence base of government decision-making, while smart cities integrate the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and other advanced technologies to elevate the intelligent level in multiple fields, including urban infrastructure construction, traffic management and environment protection. To explore in depth how these technologies drive future urban governance, taking advantage of the opportunity of the 2025 Shanghai Competitive Intelligence Forum held in Shanghai in October, our magazine conducted an interview with Lee Sungho, the director of the AI and Big Data Laboratory at the Seoul Institute in South Korea, who was a guest at the forum. This interview systematically analyzes his assessment of digital government and smart city development in Seoul, and explores how AI and big data play a key role in enhancing urban governance capacities, optimizing public services and improving the quality of life for citizens, aiming to provide references for the digital transformation of governments in China and other countries. The edited interview transcript is presented below, with annotations added by the editors.
  • ZHANG Jinjie
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(5): 44-54.
    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.
  • ZHANG Xiao
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(5): 20-31.
    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.
  • Competitive Intelligence. 2026, 22(1): 1.
    记得2015年我为《竞争情报》杂志转正式刊物写过标题为《再出发——写在〈竞争情报〉公开发行之际》的创刊词。当时,第一段写道:“1995年,上海科学技术情报研究所研究团队撰写出版了国内第一本系统介绍竞争情报理论与实践的专著《市场竞争和竞争情报》;2015年,国内唯一一本以《竞争情报》为名的正式刊物诞生在上海科学技术情报研究所,虽然它以所谓‘连续性内部资料’的身份已经坚守了十年。我们十年的夙愿终于实现了,这是上海科技情报行业共同努力的结果。正式发刊之际,除了衷心感谢所有支持关心竞争情报的同仁、同行和读者,在新的起点上,我们更应该思考如何再出发。”至今我还清晰记得该篇创刊词中的三个小标题:“回归情报”“超越竞争”和“引领创新”,并且在短文中我重复了三遍“因为我们相信情报的力量”。
  • TANG Lirong
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(5): 55-63.
    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.

  • MIAO Qihao, ZHANG Zhixiong, LAI Maosheng, ZHANG Wei, MEI Jianming, ZHENG Gang, ZENG Zhonglu, CHEN Feng, CHEN Gong, CHEN Si, TAKAHASHI Fumiyuki, WANG Yuefen, TIAN Yining
    Competitive Intelligence. 2026, 22(1): 2-20.
    Editor’s Note: Through a decade of perseverance and exploration, Competitive Intelligence completed its transition in 2015 from an internal publication to a formally published journal. Another ten years have since passed. Looking back at the period from 2015 to 2025, the intelligence community—represented by scientific and technological intelligence, competitive intelligence, and business intelligence—has undergone profound and systematic transformations in terms of technological foundations, practical paradigms, and governance mechanisms. Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and open-source intelligence (OSINT) have gradually emerged as key driving forces, reshaping the entire intelligence workflow, from information acquisition and analytical assessment to product generation and dissemination. Looking ahead to the next decade (2026–2035), the intelligence field is poised to experience even deeper transformations. How to break through institutional, technological, and cognitive barriers that constrain the realization of intelligence value—achieve true“boundary breaking”—and how to build an open, collaborative, and sustainable intelligence ecosystem that enables “co-evolution” among diverse actors will become core issues confronting the intelligence community. In this process, how can large AI models overcome the challenge of “hallucinations” to achieve high credibility and precise reasoning? How can intelligence more effectively support geopolitical competition and major business decision-making? What new breakthroughs may emerge in intelligence methodologies and technologies? Under increasingly stringent constraints on cross-border data flows and compliance requirements, how can competitive intelligence balance efficiency and security? How can business intelligence shift from a mode of passive response to one of proactive prediction? And how should intelligence education systems be adjusted to cultivate interdisciplinary professionals suited to the evolving landscape? In response to these questions, this journal has invited a number of experts who have long been deeply engaged in both intelligence research and practice to offer perspectives on the development trends of the competitive intelligence field over the next decade, with the aim of providing valuable insights and references for both academia and industry.
  • ZHANG Wenxu, XU Qianqian, ZHANG Hongwei
    Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(5): 32-43.
    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.

  • Competitive Intelligence. 2025, 21(6): 1-1.
    “十五五”时期是我国基本实现社会主义现代化夯实基础、全面发力的关键时期,也是实现高水平科技自立自强、建成科技强国、以科技现代化支撑引领中国式现代化的关键时期。党的二十届四中全会审议通过的《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议》对“加快高水平科技自立自强,引领发展新质生产力”作出了专章部署。这对“十五五”时期我国科技情报行业的高质量发展提出了要求,即必须实现从“支撑服务”到“前瞻引领”的根本性转变,其核心路径可以概括为——构建一个以“开源智慧、自主协同”为特征的新型国家科技情报体系。
  • SONG Jie, WU Shang, HE Shufen, GAO Xiaomei, XIE Jing
    Competitive Intelligence. 2026, 22(1): 38-48.
    Embodied intelligence, as a frontier hotspot in artificial intelligence, is considered a key direction for the development of the next generation of AI. The deep integration of embodied intelligence technology into the medical and health sector can significantly enhance the quality and efficiency of medical services. This study focuses on relevant literature from the Web of Science Core Collection’s SCIE and SSCI subsets as the research object, utilizes VOSviewer and BERTopic to analyze the research landscape across countries. It specifically examines global research hotspots, evolutionary trends, and key directions in the field of embodied intelligence for medical health. The results indicate that academic institutions in China and the United States hold strategic leadership positions in this field. Intelligent medical robots are currently a global research focus, with strong interactivity, good adaptability, and multimodal fusion being identified as development directions for future medical robots. Current academic research emphasizes the application and evaluation of embodied intelligence in diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. It is recommended to strengthen research efforts in areas such as privacy ethics and data protection.
  • DENG Hua
    Competitive Intelligence. 2026, 22(1): 49-57.
    This article lists competitive-intelligence-related conferences, training courses, publications and results of academic research in 2025, reveals that cutting-edge technologies are reshaping the field of competitive intelligence, while also are enabled to generate high-value information and help precise decision-making.
  • YUAN Long
    Competitive Intelligence. 2026, 22(1): 29-37.
    Based on patent analysis methods, this paper investigates the current status and trends of the technology overflow of artificial intelligence (AI) across the mechanical and chemical fields, provides information support for the technological research of development and patent layout in this field, as well as offers references for the study of overflow technologies in other fields. PC program was used to identify overflow AI patents whose families had filed with the four major patent offices. Four aspects of cross-domain overflow directions, patent sources and layout, comparison of overflow technological endowment in different source regions, development prediction of key overflow technologies were studied to reveal the key overflow directions and trends of AI technologies at home and abroad. Results indicate that currently the main overflow fields of AI technologies are medical health, biosynthesis, intelligent driving, and industrial or service robots. However, the focus of overflow technology development is shifting towards vehicle power devices and controls, pharmaceutical product formulation, and synthesis through fermentation or enzymatic, which core technologies remain weak in China. It is recommended that the government and enterprises focus on the developing of overflow technologies above, seize the opportunity for policy guidance and patent layout,in order to gain a competitive edge in future markets.
  • DANG Qianna
    Competitive Intelligence. 2026, 22(1): 58-65.
    This paper outlines the application landscape and development trends of artificial intelligence (AI) in the manufacturing sector. Built on industrial AI platforms, the combination of “large models and robotics” is driving software-defined manufacturing and flexible intelligent manufacturing, with AI applications extending from isolated processes to end-to-end workflows across design, production, quality control, supply chains, and smart factories. Looking ahead, despite challenges related to insufficient data governance, talent shortages, and weak digital foundations, software-defined manufacturing and self-optimizing factories will become key directions, while data-driven manufacturing and improved AI governance will be essential to sustaining AI-enabled industrial transformation.
  • GONG Xianjing
    Competitive Intelligence. 2026, 22(1): 21-28.
    Based on the first-generation open-source scientific and technological intelligence data of the United States, this research explores the motivations, practices of the United States in collecting, translating, and disseminating Chinese scientific and technological intelligence before the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, as well as its impacts on the national security, the construction of scientific and technological image, and scientific and technological diplomacy of the two countries. By collecting, organizing, and analyzing the Chinese scientific and technological intelligence literature data stored in the US intelligence agencies, scientific institutions, the Department of Commerce, and academic institutions, and conducting a textual analysis of the relevant US open-source intelligence policies, this study demonstrates the motivations, practices, and impacts of the United States’ translation. The research shows that during the Cold War, driven by the needs of national security, scientific and technological innovation capabilities, and diplomacy, the US intelligence community, business community, scientific community, and academic community formed a coordinated system for collecting, translating, and disseminating open-source scientific and technological intelligence on New China, which had a significant impact on Sino-US scientific and technological diplomacy, the construction of scientific and technological image, and national security.
  • Competitive Intelligence. 2026, 22(1): 66-67.
  • PENG Jingli
    Competitive Intelligence. 2026, 22(2): 2-9.
    Against the backdrop of escalating China-U.S. technological competition and the deepening strategic contest within the global semiconductor industry, the boundaries and risks associated with technical intelligence activities have become highly concerned issues by international community. In 2025, China’s Ministry of Commerce included the Canadian company Tech Insights and its related entities in the “Unreliable Entity List”, marking a significant shift in China’s countermeasures in the semiconductor sector—from primary restrictions focused on hardware and equipment level to broader controls over technical intelligence and information flows. This move has triggered extensive discussion across both industry and academia. Taking the sanctions against Tech Insights as a point of departure, this article outlines the company’s business model and development trajectory, and examines how its practices in chip reverse engineering and technical intelligence services diverged from internationally recognized commercial norms and professional ethics. The article further analyzes the underlying drivers of these practices and their adverse impacts on global semiconductor innovation ecosystems as well as industrial and supply chain security. It argues that amid intensifying great-power rivalry and the rise of techno-nationalism, technical intelligence activities—traditionally regarded as commercially neutral—are increasingly being toolized and embedded within strategic competition frameworks. Under such conditions, reliance on market mechanisms solely is insufficient to reconcile the growing tension between security and development. Focusing on the question of how technical intelligence can be used legally and in compliance with regulations in an environment of heightened international competition, the article advances targeted policy recommendations. It emphasizes the importance of accelerating the establishment of a national-level international regulatory framework for competitive intelligence that is compatible with globalization and grounded in the principle of mutual benefit. Such a framework would provide critical support for maintaining fair competition and promoting international technological cooperation, and thus holds significant practical relevance and policy value.

  • FU Xuejing, CHEN Xinyu, MA Hongwen
    Competitive Intelligence. 2026, 22(2): 10-20.
    Strategic emerging industries serve as a critical carrier for accelerating the development of new-quality productive forces, and large-scale industrial classification of enterprises constitutes a fundamental task for formulating industrial policies. To address the issues of high cost and low efficiency in conventional manual screening, an industrial classification method based on bidirectional enhancement of text data and label semantics is proposed. First, to deal with the limited training samples and unbalanced categories, we augment the textual corpus through a suite of data-enhancement strategies to increase data diversity and rectify categories imbalance. Secondly, according to the industrial definitions formulated by industry authorities, we enrich label semantics by introducing external domain knowledge, thereby expanding the semantic coverage of the labels and improving their semantic
    expression capabilities. Finally, Cross-Attention mechanism is employed to achieve deep semantic interactions between text and labels which helps better capture key semantic features in text data and strengthen the intrinsic semantic alignment between text and labels, thus improving model performance. Experimental results show that the proposed new method achieves a performance improvement of more than 3.5% compared with traditional baseline models in the application of industrial classification task of three leading industries in Shanghai.