采用数据包络分析法(DEA)对我国1999--2008年3l省份R&D活动的相对效率和规模效率进行实证研究。研究表明:我国各省份在R&D技术效率上存在显著差异,技术效率低下的省份较多;R&D规模大的省份相对R&D规模较小的省份并不具备显著的技术效率优势:31省份中仅少数省份处于规模有效和接近于规模有效状态,纯技术效率和规模效率都是影响省际R&D活动技术效率的主要因素。我国省际R&D活动存在显著的规模不经济特征。
This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method to empirically study the relative efficiency and scale efficiency of R&D activities in 31 provinces of China from 1999 to 2008. The results show that there are significant differences existing between the technical efficiency of different provinces, and a few of them have low technical efficiency, the provinces with large R&D scale don't have significant advantages in t~ae technical efficiency when compared with the provinces of small R&D scale. In the 31 provinces, only a few are in the scale-effective state and approaching to that, both pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency are the primary factors that influence the R&D activities technical efficiency in different provinces; Further research indicates that there is a significant diseconomies characteristic of scale appeared among the R&D activities in different provinces of China.