Non-R&D Innovation and High-tech Industry Innovation Performance
JI Zhong-yang1, LI Yan-long2
1.School of Economics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China; 2.School of Economics and Business Administration, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Abstract Based on the panel data of 28 provinces and cities in China from 2009 to 2016, the panel threshold model is used to empirically study the non-linear effect of non-R&D innovation on innovation performance of high-tech industry. This paper analyzes the impact of non-R&D innovations on the innovation performance difference among regional high-tech industries from both national and regional levels. Then the counter-factual measurement methods are adopted to quantitatively measure the level and convergence of non-R&D innovations affecting innovation performance. The results show that government R&D funding has a negative impact on the effect of non-R&D innovation, while the enterprise scale and export intensity have a positive impact on it. At the national level, non-R&D innovation has the greatest promotion effect in the eastern region and the least in the western region, which significantly widens the regional gap in innovation performance. At the regional level, non-R&D innovation also widens the gap in innovation performance among the east, central and west regions, with the largest impact on the western region and the least impact on the eastern region. In addition, the contribution of non-R&D innovation to the eastern and central regions is on the rise. In recent years, the growth of non-R&D innovation has improved the innovation performance of high-tech industries in the eastern and central regions by about 5%.
2019, Vol. 36 
