A Study on the Coordinated Development of the R&D and Socio-Economy for a Typical Large City in China using System Dynamics Approach

Taking Shanghai as an example, we have studied qualitatively and quantitatively the problems concerned with the coordinated development of the R&D and socio-economy for a typical large city in China. In this paper we first discuss some theoretical problems concerned with the coordinated development, then using the approach of system analysis to investigate the typical phenomena characterizing the imbalances of the development and the main reasons (constraints) which have caused these imbalances. And then we outline our main framework and ideas of the “System Dynamics Model for the Coordinated Development of R&D and Socio-economy” , illustrate the main strategy spectrum analyses and policy tests conducted on the model, and present the main conclusions and policy recommendations.