Research on the Influencing Factors of the Complexity of Medical Device Export Technology

Abstract

In this paper, the data from “international trade center” is used to calculate the technical complexity index of the representative sample countries of medical device trade, and the transnational panel data model is used to compare the influencing factors of the technical complexity of the developed and developing countries of the sample countries. The results showed that: 1) health expenditure, human capital, R & D investment and foreign investment all have a positive impact on the export technology content of medical devices, of which health expenditure and human capital had a greater impact; 2) the aging of natural resources and population have a negative impact on both developed and developing countries; 3) import trade has a stable positive impact on developed countries, but has no significant impact on developing countries; 4) population size has a stable positive impact on medical device products in developed countries, but has a negative impact on developing countries. Finally, this paper gives some suggestions to improve the export technology level of medical device products in developing countries based on multi-dimensional empirical analysis.