Abstract: The construction of the regional innovation system requires universities, research institutes and enterprises to form strategic alliances, carry out sincere and effective cooperation and work together to enhance regional innovation capacity. The reasons of the problem of instable system of the strategic alliance are various. Starting from the psychological contract that can improve the industry-university-research strategic alliance, we can design some mechanisms to enhance the system stability of the industry-university-research strategic alliance, including the ally selection and exit mechanism, the inherent mutual trust mechanism for promoting cultural integrations, the dynamic coordinating and supervising mechanism for adherence to contract, and the interest distribution mechanism for mutual interests, with the purpose of enhancing the system stability of the industry-university-research strategic alliance.

Key words: industry-university-research strategic alliance; psychological contract; mechanism design; system stability