Empirical Research on the Regional Innovation Efficiency: Based on the Panel Data of Chinese Provinces and DEA Method

Based on the method of DEA,this paper evaluates the innovation efficiency of Chinese provinces.The main conclusions are as follows:Regional innovation efficiency in our country increased from 1998-2005,but also fluctuated; after 2000,the innovation efficiency of the eastern region is lower than that in the central and western regions because of the lower pure technical efficiency.In terms of scale efficiency,there is a large margin to promote the pure technical efficiency of our country and regions,and the increase of pure technical efficiency is important to the construction of innovation-oriented country.Technical efficiency,pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency reflect convergence nationwide and the catch-up effect in the backward areas is obvious.