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Determinants of the innovation efficiency of strategic emerging enterprises: evidence from the robust frontiers

verfasst von: Weihua Su, Zhen Wang, Chonghui Zhang, Tomas Balezentis

Erschienen in: Economic Change and Restructuring | Ausgabe 3/2023

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Strategic emerging industries facilitate the deep integration of emerging technologies and strategic industries. Exploring the factors of the innovation efficiency of strategic emerging industries are of great significance to effectively implement the strategy of innovation-driven development and enhance national core competitiveness. In order to identify the linear and nonlinear influence of factors on innovation efficiency (separability hypothesis is taken into account), we apply a nonparametric robust frontier for empirical analysis. The empirical analysis relies on the sample of 186 strategic emerging enterprises in China. The results suggest that enterprise characteristics are the dominant factors of the efficiency of enterprise innovation. Among them, high-tech enterprises and enterprise size positively impact enterprise innovation, while the influence of enterprise age on innovation efficiency is nonlinear. According to the influence law of enterprise age, the enterprise life cycle can be divided into several periods, including survival, rapid growth, maturity, recession and metamorphosis. The innovation efficiency of enterprises is significantly different among industries, as the digital economy industry shows significantly lower level than the high-end equipment industry and new materials industry do. Similarly, the tertiary industry efficiency is significantly lower than that of the secondary industry. The innovation efficiency of strategic emerging enterprises has regional heterogeneity. Finally, this study provides policy suggestions for improvement of innovation efficiency of strategic emerging industries from the perspectives of government management and enterprise management.

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Titel: Determinants of the innovation efficiency of strategic emerging enterprises: evidence from the robust frontiers
verfasst von: Weihua Su
Zhen Wang
Chonghui Zhang
Tomas Balezentis
Publikationsdatum: 03.01.2023
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Economic Change and Restructuring / Ausgabe 3/2023
Print ISSN: 1573-9414
Elektronische ISSN: 1574-0277
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10644-022-09480-7

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