Analysis on the Overall Level of Regional Innovation Environment in China

Abstract

As the first of the five development concepts, innovation can effectively drive the healthy development of economy. as the main factor influencing regional innovation, the regional innovation environment can to some extent affect the regional innovation input and output, which has far-reaching significance for the overall innovation development and even economic development of the region. In this paper, the main factors influencing the regional innovation environment are extracted by factor analysis, and on this basis, cluster analysis is applied to analyze the innovation environment level of all provinces in China. Through the research, we found that the regional innovation environment in China was quite different in general, among which the eastern region was significantly better than the central and western regions. further classification could divide the regional innovation environment into three categories.