Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Huang, Can
Author-Workplace-Name: chuang@zju.edu.cn
Author-Workplace-Name: School of Management, Zhejiang University
Author-Name: Wu, Yilin
Author-Workplace-Name: School of Statistics, Renmin University of China
Author-Name: Mohnen, Pierre
Author-Workplace-Name: mohnen@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT / MGSoG
Author-Name: Zhao, Yanyun
Author-Workplace-Name: School of Statistics, Renmin University of China
Title: Government support, innovation and productivity in the Haidian (Beijing) District 
Abstract: This paper examines whether the government support in favour of firms 
	 located in the Haidian district of Beijing, which includes the 
	 Zhongguancun Science Park, was effective in terms of innovation and 
	 economic performance. We use a dataset of 500 manufacturing firms that 
	 results from a merger of the 2007 nation-wide innovation survey and the 
	 Annual Survey of Industrial Enterprises databases from the National 
	 Bureau of Statistics. We find that among all firms (state- or 
	 collectively-owned, non-state- or collectively-owned and Hong Kong, 
	 Macau, Taiwan or other foreign-funded firms) that received direct 
	 government support for innovative activities only the non-state- or 
	 collectively-owned domestic firms invested more in innovation than the 
	 firms that did not receive such support. However, despite higher 
	 government support, domestic firms have lower labour productivity than 
	 foreign-funded firms, including those funded from Hong Kong, Macau, or 
	 Taiwan.
Classification-JEL: O32, O38
Keywords: CDM, innovation policy, Haidian, evaluation 
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2013
Number: 058
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2013/wp2013-058.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2013058