The Theoretical Gap in the Study of New Quality Productive Forces and the Economic Analytical Perspective of “Heterogeneity”

Economic studies on the new quality productive forces NQPF are mushrooming, however, on the whole, the majority of existing studies primarily focus on revealing and summarizing the economic laws guiding the development of NQPF based on the“general”characteristics of individual organizations at the microlevel and institutions at the macro level. This paper argues that the background of “getting great” and the competition scenario between countries determine that “heterogeneity” is the most relevant and theoretically challenging issue in the NQPF, and also the most likely to yield significant academic outcomes. In view of the fact that the existing problem setting, conceptual framework, and analytical tools of existing eccomics fail to effectively address the unique prescriptive phenomena of NQPF, including direct competition between countries, power countries, and heterogeneity, future academic research on new quality productive forces should go beyond the current “general” issues orientation, directly address the extreme phenomena and problems in the “genesis” stage in the latest round of scientific and technological revolution, and strive to push forward the frontiers of theoretical research.