RD Performance Evaluation ―An Example of Western China

摘要

Research and Development (R&D) is the most active part in the Innovation System. R&D serves an important guideline of technology standard in plenty of countries. There are many methods to evaluate R&D performance now. Establishing an Evaluation Guideline System to analyze it by International Organizations,like OECD,is a traditional analytic method currently applied abroad.Instead,many scholars use DEA method to evaluate it home. This paper use factor analysis method to evaluate R&D performance with data of Western China. It is discovered that the factor analysis method can reveal facts objectively and avoid artificial influence in R&D performance evaluation process.