Research on the Cultivation of Top-notch Innovative Talents in Universities from the Perspective of the Integration of Education, Science and Technology, and Talent

Abstract

To better clarify the impact of the integration of education, science and technology, and talent on the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents in universities, this study adopts the fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) method. Using 23 universities in China as the research sample, the findings reveal that: (1) none of the three individual factors, education, science and technology, or talent can independently constitute either a necessary or sufficient condition for high-quality cultivation of top-notch innovative talents; (2) the sufficient condition for achieving high-quality cultivation lies in specific configurations of multiple condition variables; (3) five configurations were identified, from which three distinct paths toward achieving high-quality cultivation were derived. Accordingly, different universities can, based on their own resource endowments and local contexts, select appropriate cultivation paths to effectively enhance the quality of top-notch innovative talent training.