R&D, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH: EVIDENCE FROM CHINESE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
Based on an industry-level data set for Chinese large- and medium-size manufacturing enterprises over the period of 1996–2006, the paper investigates the impacts of three technology acquisition channels, i.e. in-house R&D, foreign technology transfer and domestic technology transfer, on the productivity growth by using both the output elasticity and the rate of return methods. We find that in-house R&D makes substantial and significant contributions to productivity growth in Chinese manufacturing industries, and that technology transfers, whether foreign or domestic, have no significantly positive effects on productivity growth. When the productivity growth is decomposed into technical efficiency change and technological progress by using Data Envelopment Analysis, we also find that the important role of R&D in improving industry performance is mainly attributable to the contributions of R&D to technical efficiency change.
R&D Technology transfer Productivity growth
Yanbing Wu
Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100836, China
国际会议
Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2009(2009创新与创业国际学术会议)
北京
英文
95-111
2009-07-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）