An empirical research on the impact of regional innovation policy on enterprise innovation efficiency

Abstract

Abstract: Innovation policies have developed into an important driving force to spur up the enterprise innovation activity. And few studies exist which focus on polices influencing innovation efficiency on the firm level. By using a Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) model, the innovation efficiency of 90 enterprises in Zhongguancun, Beijing, Chinaduring the period between 2006 and 2011 has been estimated. The results show that the mean of efficiency scores for regional innovation policies impacting on enterprise innovation efficiency is about 0.31. Among these policies, government projects, capital support, and combination of the essential factors like the sponsor on innovation talents and support on R&D facilities all play a positive role on the patent output efficiency of enterprise innovation. Tax preference, capital support and innovation talent and tax subsidies all play a positive role on the income of enterprise innovation product. Furthermore, the effect of capital support impacts on the efficiency is decreased with time. There is a highly efficiency of policy impact on electronic information enterprises and biopharmaceutical enterprises, and a lower of equipment-related which showed a characteristic of Kuznets Curve. Micro and small enterprises depend more on regional innovation policies than large ones and the effects of policies influence the innovation efficiency of SME is better than that of large ones.

Key words: innovation efficiency, regional innovation policy, R&D innovation, stochastic frontier analysis (SFA)

CLC Number:

F204

Li Chenguang, Zhang Yong'an. An empirical research on the impact of regional innovation policy on enterprise innovation efficiency[J]. Science Research Management, 2014, 35(9): 25-35.

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