R&D Efficiency and Its Influencing Factors of State Key Laboratories in China
Basic research is at the forefront of today's technological competition,we must break through the constraints of basic research.The state key laboratory is an important base for organizing high-level basic research.Estimating the R&D efficiency of the state key laboratory and identifying the influencing factors can guide to optimize the layout of the state key laboratories and improve the R&D efficiency.In this paper,two complementary models,namely,DEA-Tobit and PP-SFA,are used to study the R&D efficiency of China's state key laboratory.And the results contain that there exists a large space for improvement,the R&D efficiency of laboratory relying on universities is significantly larger than those relying on scientific institutes.From 1990 to 2007,the R&D efficiency of national laboratory fluctuates greatly,and it has a moderate decline from 2008 to 2018.Mobility of staff and laboratory's competition significantly increase R&D efficiency,but academic openness and fund management level has a poor effect on R&D efficiency.In order to improve the R&D efficiency of state key laboratory,it is necessary to enhance the mobility of researchers and improve the mechanism of survival of the fittest.Furthermore,it is of vital significance to reform the mechanism of academic opening and construct the mechanism of researcher-centered R&D resource allocation.