Abstract
The paper is dedicated to probing into the effects of R & D, foreign and domestic technology imports on innovation capacity by using the province-level panel data of high-tech industry from 1999 to 2012. The analysis shows that R & D, foreign technology imports do have positive influences on improving innovation capacity while the effects of domestic technology transfer are not significant and R & D do positive effects on assimilating foreign and domestic technology imports. The relationships among R & D, foreign and domestic technology and innovation capacity also take on different patterns in different regions. Technology imports’ influences on improving innovation capacity are not significant in the middle and west region. Each region should propose specific incentives for innovation to enhance regional innovation capability.
Highlights
Since 1980s, the high-tech industry has become an important source of economic growth in every country
Join the enterprise R & D expenditure stock, foreign technology imports stock and domestic technology transfer stock in Columns (3) to (5), the results show that the domestic technology transfer stock coefficient estimate is not significant
Foreign technology import spending has no significant effect to the promotion of innovation ability; Only R & D expenditure in the western region has significant positive effect on promoting innovation capacity and it’s important to note that domestic technology purchased coefficient showed significant negative impact on the innovation ability and this maybe because in the western region for the transfer of the lack of domestic technology digestion and absorption ability can’t play the role of the purchase technology
Summary
Since 1980s, the high-tech industry has become an important source of economic growth in every country. Making use of panel data of sub-industries, Sha Wenbing and Sun Jun (2010) [6] have studied the influence of spilling over FDI knowledge upon the innovation ability of China’s high-tech industry, considering that the research and development activities of foreign enterprises have promoted the enhancement of innovation ability of domestic enterprises to a certain extent. We can know that FDI has a certain influence upon innovation ability of high-tech industry but the influence of technology imports upon innovation ability of high-tech industry remains to be studied; Using the panel data of high-tech industry of 26 provinces in China from 1999 to 2012, this paper has carried out an empirical study on independent research and development as well as the relationships between the domestic technology transfer and foreign technology imports and the innovation ability and has analyzed the result of the study with putting forwards the corresponding countermeasures and recommendations
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