Abstract
Taking China’s 56 national high-tech zones as the research objects, this paper respectively dis-cusses the decomposition, features and diversity issues of the operational efficiency of the high- tech zones, based on DEA evaluation of its comprehensive efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency. This research shows: 1) Over the years, the operating efficiency of China’s high- tech zones characterizes cycle development, and the low efficiency of the “first entrepreneurship” and “secondary entrepreneurship” stages result from invalid scale efficiency and pure technical efficiency; 2) China’s high-tech zones can be divided into four types, namely, the versatile and efficient type, the inefficient scale type, the inefficient allocation type and the continuous improvement type, and the low efficiency of high-tech zones is mainly rooted in pure technical inefficiency.
Highlights
China’s National High-tech Zones are important carriers aiming to improve our capability of independent innovation, the implementation of innovation-driven development strategy
The results show that: 1) Over the years, the operating efficiency of China’s high-tech zones characterizes cycle development, namely, the “first entrepreneurship” phase, where overall operating efficiency of the high-tech zones is not high mainly due to an invalid scale efficiency; but in the “secondary entrepreneurship” phase, the overall operating efficiency of the high-tech zones is not high due to an invalid pure technical efficiency
From the perspective of structural differences, the main factor leading to the differences of the comprehensive efficiency of high-tech zones is pure technical efficiency, namely, the input-output of resources has not yet obtained optimum; from the perspective of category differences, high-tech areas of the inefficient allocation type are the majority, most of high-tech zones of this type “drag” overall operational efficiency, which need to be adjusted and improved
Summary
China’s National High-tech Zones (hereinafter referred to as “high-tech zones”) are important carriers aiming to improve our capability of independent innovation, the implementation of innovation-driven development strategy. In the current situation of scarce innovation resources, this paper identifies the situation and the reasons for the innovation efficiency of different high-tech zones [3]-[5] and studies how to improve the innovative technology efficiency of high-tech zones to produce innovation output as high as possible with limited innovation investment. It will undoubtedly have important theoretical and practical significance for strengthening the dominant position of the high-tech areas of technological innovation, rapidly increasing China’s technological innovation capability, and accelerating the process of innovation-driven strategy
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