Abstract
Innovation has become the main impetus for regional development. Effective utilization of innovation resources is crucial in promoting sustainable innovation. From the theoretical aspect, there still exists uncertainty of how to effectively evaluate innovation performance. From the empirical aspect, we still doubt whether regions of higher economic level or high innovation quantity really show positive regional innovation performance, especially in heterogeneous regions. This paper uses DEA-Malmquist index to measure regional innovation performance of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China. Regions of similar performance levels are grouped by ward clustering, analysis regional innovation performance characteristics, and problem-solving paths of regions in different development stages. The empirical research proves that overall performance of Yangtze River Economic Belt is not high. The economic core area has realized increase of innovation volume through large amount of material input and resource consumption, instead of realizing full utilization of innovative resources; how to improve the utilization rate of existing technical resources has been neglected. Different regions with similar innovation performance show different characteristics and innovation problems, including resource mismatch, input redundancy, or insufficient output. There are also some differences in the way the region’s specific innovation performance is improved.
Highlights
With the development of economy, knowledge has replaced capital and became the resource with great strategic value
Romer had pointed out that R&D research aimed at pursing economic profits can realize knowledge accumulation and promote long-term economic growth [5]. at means, in the era of knowledge and learning economy, R&D ability of region is the key factor for regional economic development
Cities of Yangtze River Economic Belt have strong heterogeneity; from the perspective of economic development, the eastern Region 1 is core economic development region which developed in post-industrialization stage
Summary
With the development of economy, knowledge has replaced capital and became the resource with great strategic value. How to realize interregional coordinated development and sustainable development of innovation resources is a strategic problem that needs to be solved urgently in China. Relation between innovation performance and economic development has become a consensus; this paper, based on knowledge production function, selected metropolis of Yangtze Economic Belt and analyzed overall level, spatial distribution, and various tendencies of the innovation performance. (3) e Yangtze River Economic Belt is divided into groups of similar levels according to R&D performance. What are their problems and the main directions for solving these problems?.
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