研究兴趣：
科技政策，创新与发展战略，新兴技术治理与转化，国际科研合作
在研课题：
项目负责人，国家自然科学基金会青年科学基金项目《高校间的跨国科研合作：组织特征、动因与绩效研究》在研（2020-2022）
项目骨干，国家重点研发计划项目《合成生物学生物安全研究》子课题《合成生物学研发及应用的全球治理与国际合作》（2021-2025）
代表成果：
Kaidong Feng & Yin Li*. (2020). “Employee Ownership and Industrial Innovation: Huawei in the US-China Technology Rivalry,” The China Review, 20 (4), 39–67
Yin Li. (2020). “Innovative Firms and High-tech Industrial Hubs in China,” in Arkebe Oqubay & Justin Yifu Lin, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Hubs and Economic Development, Oxford University Press.
Yin Li, Sanjay Arora, Jan Youtie & Philip Shapira. (2018). “Using Web Mining to Explore Triple Helix Influences on Growth in Small and Mid-Size Firms,” Technovation, 76-77: 3-14 （影响因子：5.729)
Jan Youtie, Yin Li, Juan Rogers, & Philip Shapira. (2017). “Institutionalization of International University Research Ventures,” Research Policy, 46(9): 1692-1705（影响因子：5.351；FT50）
Yin Li. (2016). “State, Market, and Business Enterprise: Development of the Chinese Integrated Circuits Foundries,” in Yu Zhou, William Lazonick, & Yifei Sun, eds., China As an Innovation Nation, Oxford University Press.
Yin Li, Philip Shapira & Jan Youtie. (2015). “Why do technology firms publish scientific papers? The strategic use of science by small and midsize enterprises in nanotechnology,” The Journal of Technology Transfer, 40(6), 1016-1033 （影响因子：4.147)
