Since the1980s, China has established a strategy to develop high-techindustry.From that time on, the government has increased investment and policysupport in high-tech industry, and it developed rapidly. So far, The Gross IndustrialOutput Value of China’s high-tech industry has been ranked in the world. However, itis not a long-term solution or wise to rely on increased investment and policy supportto maintain high-tech industry’s development, the efficiency of input-output is evenmore critical. As high-tech industry is concentrated R&D activities, therefore, thelevel of R&D performance is extremely important to high-tech industry.In this paper, we based on the research of home and aboard, and using StochasticFrontier Analysis (SFA), by choosing2000-2009high-tech industry in China’s26provinces (municipalities) panel data, using the number of patent applications andnew product sales revenue as the output established model respectively, we do someempirical analysis on China’s provinces (municipalities) high-tech industry’s R&Dperformance and its influencing factors. Main conclusions are as follows:(1) On the whole,Whether we considered influencing factors or not,the R&Dperformance of China’s high-tech industry is not high,the middle efficiency is about0.4, while the ultimate efficiency is only about0.25,it is also shows that there isconsiderable room to improve for China’s high-tech industry’s R&D performance.From the trends,we know the middle efficiency is increasing over time, while theultimate efficiency maintain the same level. From regional perspective, there is aclear trend that the east high-tech industry’s R&D efficiency is higher than other partof China.(2) From the factors in inefficiency function,the government investment andR&D intensity is not play positive role in R&D performance as expected, buthad a negative impact,which also explains blindly increasing capital investment didnot play much role on Chinese high-tech industry’s R&D.We should make moreemphasis on the quality and structure of investment in the future. In the same time, weshould supervise the direction and use of capital. Firm size and market structure haveplayed a positive impact on R&D performance, which means we should encourageenterprises expand its scale through restructure, mergers or other means to address thetechnical issues. On the other hand, in order to improve R&D performance, we should create a competitive market environment and encourage enterprises to participate inthe competition.Finally, according to research findings, we put forward some correspondingpolicy recommendations for the specific situation of China. |