社会资本对技术创新与经济增长的影响——基于中国的经验证据

The Effects of Social Capital on Technology Innovation and Economic Growth——Evidences from Chinese Data

从信任、社会网络和信息共享三个维度构建社会资本测度指标,运用我国省域面板数据实证研究社会资本-技术创新-经济增长三者的链式关系,结果发现:各个社会资本指标均显著影响技术创新与经济增长绩效,链式关系成立;社会网络维度的社会资本的技术创新与经济增长效应最强,信息共享维度的作用次之,信任维度的作用最弱;技术创新并不是社会资本影响经济增长的完全中介,社会资本还通过其他渠道影响经济增长。

This paper measured social capital from three dimensions： trust, social network and information sharing, and used Chinese provinces panel-data to examine the chain relationships of social capital, technology innovation and economic growth. Results showed that all indicators of social capital influenced significantly the performance of technology innovation and economic growth, and the chain relationship was verified. Social network had the strongest effect on the technical innovation and economic growth, the effect of information sharing come second, trust＇s was the weakest. But the technology innovation was not a full mediator variable between social capital and economic growth, social capital also affected economic growth through other channels.