From the overall development of China’s macro-economic society,the central six provinces(Anhui,Hunan,Jiangxi,Henan,Shanxi,Hubei Province)are the key to promote the integration of East-west and harmonious development.Until the early 21 st century,however,facing the prosperity of economic development in the eastern region and the vigorous development strategy in the western region,the economic development of six provinces in central China seems to fall into the dilemma of not finding the general direction,and it is far from playing its due role of "East" and "West" and promoting the coordinated development of the regional economy in theIn order to change the predicament of economic development in central China,Premier Wen Jiabao put forward the strategy of Central Rising in 2004.In December 2016,the government’s "Thirteen-Five" plan to promote the rise of the central region also instructed that the central six provinces needed to take a new step in innovation.Innovation can effectively enhance the inner vigor of regional economic development.Innovation should not only pay attention to the amount of innovative resources,but also pay attention to the use efficiency of resources.Compared with the developed areas in the east,the central region is still very limited in the access to innovation resources,how to make these limited innovative investment resources rational use,to achieve optimal allocation,to obtain the greatest innovation output,has become the central six province economic and social development decision-making process in urgent need to solve problems,By means of quantitative analysis,the innovation efficiency and its influencing factors in six provinces of central China can provide useful insights to solve these problems.At first,through the collating and analysis of domestic and foreign literatures,based on the theory of regional innovation system,this paper divides the innovation process into two stages of knowledge research and achievement transformation,and constructs the two stage evaluation theory model of the innovation system in the central six province.Secondly,on the basis of collecting two-stage input-output index,using DEA method,Malmquist index method and spatial convergence model,this paper empirically studies the regional innovation efficiency in six provinces of central China from the view of static,dynamic and convergence respectively.The empirical study found that,from the static analysis,the central Knowledge research and development efficiency is lower than the east-west,and the results conversion efficiency is lower than the eastern part.Among them,six provinces in central China during the period of research and development of the innovation efficiency of the average value of 0.7,while in the transformation phase of the results of the innovation efficiency is 0.56,the overall knowledge research and development efficiency is high,the result conversion efficiency of the innovation model.From the dynamic point of view,the central knowledge research and development efficiency shows a downward trend,the Ministry of East and West show the growth trend,while the middle of the results of the conversion efficiency of the growth trend,the Ministry of the East and West is showing a decline.Among them,six provinces in the middle of the knowledge development phase of the innovation efficiency is declining trend,the average annual decrease of 0.5%,while the results of the transformation phase of the innovation efficiency is rising,the average annual growth of 4%;the lower efficiency of the knowledge development phase is mainly caused by the decrease of technical efficiency.The improvement of efficiency in the transformation stage is mainly driven by the increase of technical efficiency.From the analysis of spatial convergence characteristics,the regional innovation efficiency of six provinces in central China has obvious spatial correlation,which mainly manifests itself as spatial error autocorrelation.In the six provinces of central China,the efficiency of knowledge development and the efficiency of achievement transformation have absolute convergence and conditional convergence,and the growth of knowledge research and development efficiency is positively correlated with education investment,participation degree and participation of research and development institutions.The growth of the efficiency of achievement transformation is positively correlated with openness and enterprise scale,And the second industry accounted for the proportion of GDP and the use of foreign investment is negatively correlated.Finally,this paper puts forward several countermeasures and suggestions on the basis of theoretical and empirical analysis to improve the innovation efficiency of six provinces in central China,namely:(1)to increase the investment of innovative resources.(2)pay attention to education,train creative talents.(3)vigorously develop High-tech industries.(4)need to strengthen support to the central backward provinces and regions.(5)accelerate the adjustment of industrial structure and enlarge the proportion of the tertiary industry. |