Innovation Efficiency of Industry-University-Research Subjects and Its Impact on Tourism Performance:A Provincial Analysis
The article is firstly to measure and compare the efficiency and spatial characteristics of innovation input and out-put of industry-university-research in tourism from the perspective of industry-university-research collaborative innovation and at the level of a province.Furthermore,it analyzes the impact of innovation efficiency on the industry performance in tourism.Tourism enterprises,universities,and research institutions are selected as representatives of tourism innovation entities,and in-put-output data from three different periods are analyzed by DEA model and grey correlation method.The results show that(1)the overall tourism innovation efficiency of the three entities in each province is relatively low,with higher innovation efficiency values for some provinces along the Belt and Road Initiative,in the southeast-northwest and eastern coastal areas,(2)the coordi-nation of tourism innovation efficiency among the three entities is not high,with some provinces achieving a high balance,and(3)the tourism innovation efficiency of the three entities is significantly correlated with the industry performance of tourism at the provincial level.These findings contribute to the understanding of the structure and the process of regional tourism innova-tion,which will provide references for the rational allocation of tourism innovation resources in China.