title: How Does the Concentration of Determinants Affect Industrial Innovation Performance? - An Empirical Analysis of 23 Chinese Industrial Sectors.
abstract: The agglomeration of innovation determinants has a significant influence on the innovation performance of industries and enterprises. Such an effect has received less attention in empirical research studies. This study involves a survey of the agglomeration effect of two important innovation determinants, R&D investment and R&D personnel, and its influence on innovation performance from the perspective of the industrial level. We analysed the agglomeration features based on the panel data of 23 Chinese industrial sectors from 2001~2013. An interpretation model is proposed to examine the agglomeration effect on innovation performance for 4 industrial groups: state-owned enterprises, individual enterprises, foreign-owned enterprises and enterprises as a whole. We found two main results. First, the agglomeration of determinants has a clear positive effect on the innovation performance of all 4 groups but affects individual enterprises more significantly, followed by state-owned and foreign-owned enterprises. Second, the state-owned enterprises show a much higher concentration of R&D investment and R&D personnel than other groups. However, the induced innovation efficiency in the state-owned enterprises is worse than in the individual enterprises. The advantage of resources and capital does not translate into corresponding innovation output. The privately owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) show a high capability of technological innovation and mercerization but have limited innovation resources.
authors.affiliation: College of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China.|Guangxi University of Science and Technology, Liuzhou, China.
authors.forename: Shansong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: School of Business, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.affiliation: College of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Qingmei
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Tan
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D062069:Inventions; D066192:Manufacturing Industry / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D012106:Research / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data