Study of Allocative Efficiency of Scientific and Technological Resources in Mega Cities of China

摘要

This paper employs the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to study the development of allocative efficiency of scientific and technological resources in Chinese mega cities from 2011 to 2015. The result shows Shenzhen and Chongqing achieved the DEA-efficiency of using scientific and technological resource over the research time; Beijing and Guangzhou continuously improved their allocative efficiency and reached the production frontier at the later stage of research time. On the other side, Shanghai failed to realize the DEA-efficiency because of the excessive concentration of R&D expense and R&D labor; Tianjin suffered from relatively low allocative efficiency due to the redundancy of R&D personnel and the shortage of knowledge output. This paper mainly contributes to systematically investigating the allocative efficiency of scientific and technological resources in specific city, instead of country, region, or province as before; and greatly increasing the practical significance of study by emphasizing the significance of each mega city in constructing China's national innovation system in empirical analysis.