| Innovation is an important index to measure a country or region of comprehensive competitiveness. It is the key to keep the national and regional economy sustainable development and competitive advantage. Improve capacity for independent innovation and building the innovative country is China’s important strategic task and long-term target. In the long run, improving regional innovation ability is the basic choice of regional economic development, and also is the basic way to enhance regional competitiveness. Gansu province is located in the inland, economic development is relatively backward. Its geographical features and resources reserve is different. The regional innovation ability of each city is different. Analysis the differences of regional innovation ability, it can help search the potential, advantage and direction of Gansu province regional innovation. To build a reasonable regional innovation system. This is giving full play to the advantages of regional innovation resources, realize the factors driving to innovation driving shift’s key.This article uses the combining method of theory research and empirical research. On the basis of sorting related theory, discusses the connotation of regional innovation ability, the components of regional innovation system, etc.Analyzing the present situation of Gansu province’s regional innovation ability from the three aspect of innovation enteiprise scale, the R&D funds input and innovation output. From the structural analysis of forming mechanism of regional innovation ability, using principal component analysis (pca). Empirical analysis the differences in Gansu province regional innovation capacity and draw relevant conclusions. Finally, the full text summary and put forward the future development prospect.Finally, summarizing the full text and putting forward the future development prospect. |