Science Research Management ›› 2011, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (9): 15-21.

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The contribution of public R&D organization to the innovation in China

Li Ping, Wang Chunhui   

  1. School of Economics, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255049, China
  • Received:2009-10-09 Revised:2010-07-28 Online:2011-09-27 Published:2011-09-22

Abstract: 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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