Abstract
The overall strategy for land-sea coordination is important for scientific and technological innovation efficiency in China's coastal areas. In this paper, the country's mixed land and sea regions were selected for study, including two land and ocean subsystems with input and output index systems. Based on the variation coefficient method, the global Malmquist–Luenberger (GML) index was used to calculate the scientific and technological development efficiency of coordinated plans for China's coastal land and sea areas from 2006 to 2015 and to analyze the regional differences among these plans. The conclusions are as follows. First, the total factor productivity growth rate of science and technology innovation efficiency in China's coastal areas is primarily larger than 1 and at the frontier of efficiency. The efficiency of mixed areas is higher than that of separated land and sea areas, and the differences in regional technological innovation efficiencies has gradually narrowed. The change in technical efficiency is consistent with changes in the GML index, and the financial crisis of 2008–2009 had a significant positive impact on pure technical efficiency. Second, the coordinated plans for land and sea areas are realized and spatial differences in scientific and technological innovation efficiency in China's coastal areas are classified according to scientific and technological innovation in China's coastal areas. Hebei and Liaoning are classified according to the land efficiency type; Jiangsu and Zhejiang are classified as the marine efficiency-driven type; and the Shandong, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Pan-Pearl River Delta regions are classified as the efficiency of mixed land and sea areas type. Drivers of regional differences mainly include economic development levels, differences in industry structure, the personnel structure of scientific and technological systems, and the state of production and the influence of the government.
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