企业规模与创新:来自中国省级水平的经验证据

Firm Size and Innovation:Evidence from China’s Province-Level Data

本文使用我国1985-1997年省级水平的面板数据，应用动态面板模型方法对我国企业规模与创新的地区间差异问题进行了研究。本文的基本发现是，在我国，企业规模对创新有显著的促进作用，但是企业规模对创新的正向关系主要来源于非国有企业，而不是国有企业。这说明企业规模与创新的关系要以一定的企业治理结构为条件，单纯的规模化和集团化并不一定能够保证企业的创新能力。

Using China's province-level panel data from1985to1997,this paper explores the empirical relationship between firm size and innovation.We find that firm size makes positive and significant contribution to innovation and that the primary contribution is made by non-state owned firms,rather than by state owned firms.This finding indicates that the positive association between firm size and innovation does not hold uniformly for all ownership types in China,and the government policy of simply pursuing the big size of state-owned firms may not lead to high in-novation capabilities.