This paper was previously circulated under the title ‘Government-Industry-University-Research-User Platform Construction and Corporate Innovation: Evidence from the Establishment of the Academician Workstation of Listed Companies’ (in Chinese, 2018). We wish to thank Prof. Yongxiang Wang and Prof. Jiaping Qiu and seminar participants at Suzhou College, Renmin University of China for helpful comments and suggestions. This research is supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Uni