Abstract:

Sixteen fishery research institutes in 14 countries were analyzed and compared with typical Chinese fishery research institutes with regards to science and technology competitiveness by constructing an index system for evaluation of fishery scientific and technological competitiveness, and using the method of analytic hierarchy process,. It is found that Chinese fishery research institutes ranks high in terms of competitiveness in research investments, with high scores of total number of personnel as well as research funding. However, competitiveness in research outcomes were not among the top list, reflecting a lack of high level academic papers and low frequency of articles cited. The comprehensive competitiveness of Chinese fishery research institutes is among the upper middle range. These findings indicate that language barrier is only one of the factors affecting the competitiveness in science and technology while lack of original innovation capacity is the major factor.