Based on the perspective of R&D input-output performance, the effects of human capital investment and R&D expenditure in public R&D institutes on the regional technological innovation are analyzed with empirical evidences of 30 provinces' panel data in China during the period of 2001-2008. The results show that the human capital investment could provide more impetus to the regional innovation than that of the R&D expenditure in public R&D institutes, and the effect is greater in eastern region than that in western region of China. However, the R&D expenditure of public R&D institutes has certain crowding-out effects on regional innovation.
Key words
public R&D institute /
technological innovation /
R&D performance /
R&D human capital /
R&D expenditure
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