转型经济体中,企业不仅会依赖于对内的能力建设,如研发创新行为,也会寻求外部帮助,如寻租腐败活动.在此背景下,利用世界银行提供的中国企业调查数据,实证分析了企业腐败支出与其研发投入之间的关系,其中的腐败活动以企业招待差旅费近似刻画.研究结果表明,企业的寻租腐败活动显著地提高了其研发投入.在考虑内生性问题后,这一结论仍然成立.然而,这并不意味着企业寻租腐败活动对其研发投入的积极作用.相反,研究结论正好直击我国市场制度的缺失所带来的“腐败悖论”.因此,加强对公权力的监督、完善创新制度建设,构建公平竞争的营商环境,对提高我国企业研发创新能力具有重要现实意义.
The firms don't only rely on the capacity construction,such as the R&D behavior for innovation,but also seeking for out side help,that is rent-seeking,in the transitional economy.The research investigates the relationship between the corrupt practices and the R&D investment through the data provided by the World Bank,we measure the corrupt practices through the entertainment costs of firms.The results show that a significance positive relationship exists.We have consider the endogenous problem and an instrument variable regression is selected to make sure the result is robust enough.However,the result doesn' t mean that a positive promotion of corruption to the innovation of firms,on the contrary,strengthening the monitoring of power,perfecting the construction of innovation system and creating a fair and transparent business environment is critical to improve the innovation ability of firms.