传统产业高技术化过程的替代性逻辑——以车用柴油机技术进步为例

An alternative logic of the hi-tech transformation of traditional industries: a case study of technical change in vehicle diesel engine

作为转变经济发展方式的重要组成部分,传统产业转型升级的一个基本途径是将高技术成果引入传统产业,即实现传统产业的高技术化。我国学术与政策主流对这一问题的基本观点是以高新技术改造传统产业,通过信息化手段实现装备升级。本文以车用柴油机工业过去四十年的技术进步为例,说明上述主流观点的片面性。本文认为,与被动地等待装备升级相比,自主的产品开发使传统产业的技术进步具有了充分的内生性特征和渐进性特征,并因此成为传统产业高技术化的主要方式和关键环节。基于这一理论立场,文章最后归纳了我国传统产业高技术化面临的形势及相关政策启示。

As an important part of the transformation of the pattern of economic development, a fundamental approach of the upgrading of traditional industries is to utilize those hi - tech achievements, i.e. the hi - tech transformation of traditional industries. The main- stream logic on this topic is to reform traditional industries by hi - tech ones, especially by digitalized equipment. This research discus- ses technical change in vehicle diesel engine in the past four decades. It shows that it is indigenous product development in traditional industries that results in endogenic and gradual technical change and this is more effective than equipment upgrading. Product develop- ment therefore is confirmed as the main approach and key factor in the transformation. In the final part the paper summarizes the situa- tion and related policy insights of the transformation based on product development.