中国智库思想市场的培育与规制

Study on the Cultivation and Regulation of Chinese Think Tanks Idea Market

智库思想市场是指从事公共政策思想生产的知识分子与其需求方通过各种媒介进行的思想商品交换活动。市场存在政治、分配、社会化、伦理等方面的局限与失灵,而智库思想产品所具有的公共性、社会性、政治性、超前性、全球性、扩散性和其以追求影响力而不是利润为目标的特点,使得智库思想市场与其他商品市场相比更易出现市场失灵,从而也更需要政府的规制。目前中国处于思想市场的培育期,一方面要逐步培育和形成中国特色的智库思想市场,另一方面要对其建设与发展实施有效规制,形成智库思想市场培育与规制相辅相成的有序发展环境。

This paper was the first to propose the concept of Think Tanks Idea Market based on the ide- a market theory. To analyze its characteristics, discuss the necessity of the cultivation and regulation for Chinese Think Tanks Idea Market, and provide strategic suggestions for the future development of Chinese think tanks. Think Tanks Idea Market is referred to as exchanges of ideas between intellectuals who are engaged in public policy production and their demanders through varies media. Failure and lim- itations may occur in the market in terms of politics, distribution, socialization and ethics. And failure of Think Tanks Idea Market occurs more easily as the product possesses such features as publicity, so- ciality, politics, diffusivity, with a forward-thinking and global horizon, and its pursuit for influence rather than profits, and therefore requires more government regulation. China is currently in the period of market cultivation. On the one hand, we should further open and foster a Think Tanks Idea Market with Chinese characteristics. On the other, we need to have an effective regulation to the construction and development of Chinese think tanks.