HOW FUNDING STRUCTURE AFFECTS EFFICIENCY of R&D INVESTMENT by LARGE-AND MEDIUM-SIZED INDUSTRIAL FIRMS in China? EVIDENCE from PROVINCE-LEVEL PANEL DATA

Yixiao Zhou; Runyang Zhang; Ligang Song

doi:10.1142/S0217590817450084

HOW FUNDING STRUCTURE AFFECTS EFFICIENCY of R&D INVESTMENT by LARGE-AND MEDIUM-SIZED INDUSTRIAL FIRMS in China? EVIDENCE from PROVINCE-LEVEL PANEL DATA

Yixiao Zhou^*
, Runyang Zhang
, Ligang Song

^*Corresponding author for this work

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This study explores the efficiencies of firm's R&D investment depending on the degree of reliance on government funding relative to firms' private funding. Stochastic frontier analysis is applied on a sample of 30 provinces with data on R&D inputs and innovation outputs by all large-and medium-sized industrial firms in these provinces from 2000 to 2013. It is found that R&D investment financed by firms' private funding is more efficient than that by government funding in generating new products, whereas R&D investment financed by government funding is more efficient than that by firms' private funding in producing new patents.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	921-938
Number of pages	18
Journal	Singapore Economic Review
Volume	64
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217590817450084
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2019

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