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https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2094436
Fiscal science and technology expenditure and the spatial convergence of regional innovation efficiency: evidence from China’s province-level data
Shiying Hou
Jianjia He
Liangrong Song
Sažetak
Narrowing the gap in regional innovation efficiency is conducive
to the coordinated development of regional economies. Fiscal science
and technology (S&T) expenditure is the government’s primary
means of supporting regional innovation. It also plays an
essential role in improving the efficiency of regional innovation.
This study constructs a spatial convergence economic model
based on a dynamic perspective. It also examines the relationship
between fiscal S&T expenditure and spatial convergence of
regional innovation efficiency. China’s regional innovation efficiency
shows a trend of conditional b-convergence. Fiscal S&T
expenditure positively affects the spatial convergence of regional
innovation efficiency and has an inverted U-shaped, nonlinear
relationship as a whole. The transmission mechanism test
revealed that the cross-regional flow of research and development
(R&D) personnel can enhance this positive effect, and the
role of R&D capital is not significant.
Ključne riječi
Fiscal S&T expenditure; regional innovation efficiency; spatial effect; b convergence; transmission mechanism
Hrčak ID:
304195
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.3.2023.
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