营商环境优化、同群偏向性与技术创新

Improving Business Environment, Peer Tendency and Technological Innovation

厘清营商环境、政府创新投入同群行为与技术创新间的关系是我国经济高质量发展面临的重大问题。本文剖析了地方政府同群偏向的内生机理及其对技术创新的促进机制,分析了营商环境优化对二者关系的调节作用,并以我国2008-2017年185个地级市数据为样本进行了实证检验,结果发现:地方政府创新投入行为存在显著的同群偏向性,"行政相邻"下同群偏向强度最高,"地理相邻"下同群偏向强度随着地理半径的增加而衰减;地方政府创新投入同群偏向性对技术创新具有显著的促进作用;营商环境优化能够有效抑制地方政府在"经济人"诉求下对财政创新投入配置效率的负面影响,从而提升政府创新投入绩效。因此,应进一步优化营商环境,以规避地方政府决策中的同群偏向性引致的创新投入损失。

It is important to clarify the relationship among business environment, governments’ peer behavior and technological innovation for China’s high-quality economic development. This paper analyzes the endogenous mechanism of local governments’ peer tendency and its promotion for technological innovation. We also analyze the moderating effect of business environment improvement and carry out an empirical test with the data of 185 cities from 2008 to 2017 in China. The results show that: Significant peer tendency exists in local governments’ innovation behavior. The tendency is strongest under the "administrative adjacency" and decreases with the geographical radius under the "geographical adjacency". The peer tendency of local governments’ innovation has a significant impact on technological innovation. The improvement of business environment can effectively restrain local governments’ "economic man" behavior and its negative effect on the allocation efficiency of financial innovation investment. Consequently, this paper believes that the business environment should be further optimized to avoid the innovative input loss caused by the peer tendency in the decisions of local governments.