Technological Innovation Effect Of Productive Service Import On Manufacturing Industry

Technical innovation is the core element of national competitiveness and the power source of sustained economic growth. Under the global economic integration, the relationship between countries is closer, and national technical innovation is not isolated. Studies have proved that trade is related to a country’s technical level, but neglected how trade affects a country’s technical innovation. Especially, producer services trade, which is mostly knowledge-intensive and technology-intensive, plays a significant role in economic development. The import of producer services can exert a direct influence on a country’s technical innovation, while the hidden knowledge capital, technology capital, and human capital, can affect technical innovation indirectly. Following this idea, the primary task of this dissertation is to analyze and examine the effect of technical innovation caused by the import of producer services. On this basis, this dissertation conducts an in-depth study on the preconditions of that effect, namely, whether there is a threshold or not.Based on these two tasks, this dissertation sums up existing studies from the perspective of trade and industries, and analyzes this issue by both theoretical and empirical study. In the part of theoretical study, this dissertation finds out the threshold variables of technical innovation effect, and discusses how these variables result in the threshold effect. According to this dissertation, it is the recreation ability, transformative ability, connective ability, and absorptive ability that decide the result of technical innovation effect caused by producer services import.As to the empirical study, it finds out that the technical innovation’s efficiency of China’s manufacturing industry can be promoted by at least30%, for high input always results in low output; there are significant differences between China’s manufacturing industries in the efficiency of technical innovation, but these gaps are narrowing slowly; there is a positive correlation between producer services import and the technical innovation of China’s manufacturing industry; higher market competitiveness can improve the efficiency of technical innovation; with the growing of an industry’s asset scale, the efficiency of its technical innovation declines. There are notable thresholds of technical innovation effect caused by producer services import. When an industry’s R&D capital stock is lower than563680thousand yuan, its technical innovation effect is insignificant for the lack of recreation ability. Transformative ability, connective ability, and absorptive ability, which are measured by new product development fund, the number of R&D projects, and the number of researchers respectively, all has marked threshold effect, and the thresholds are1873410thousand yuan,852projects, and3725people.The suggestions raised by this dissertation are:develop producer services import and add the investment in producer services in the process of technical innovation of manufacturing industry; absorb technology spillover and develop independent innovation ability at the same time develop enterprises’transformative ability and connective ability, and enhance our country’s independent innovation ability through recreation; increase the intensity of R&D input, accelerate the accumulation of human capital, and improve the incentive mechanism of technical innovation.