Inter-provincial differences of technical innovation efficiency among farmer professional cooperatives in China-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Inter-provincial differences of technical innovation efficiency among farmer professional cooperatives in China

Published:2020-05-03 Issue:3 Volume:47 Page:410-424
ISSN:0302-3427
Container-title:Science and Public Policy
language:en
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Author:

Zhou Ping¹,Yang Lichao¹,Hu Pingbo²,Cheng Yang³⁴⁵,Zhou Shenghan⁶

Affiliation:

1. School of Information Technology, Jiangxi University of Finance & Economics, Nanchang, Jiangxi, Nanchang 330032, P.R. China

2. School of Statistics, Jiangxi University of Finance & Economics, Nanchang, Jiangxi 333000, P.R. China

3. Center for Industrial Production, Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University, Fibigerstraede 16, DK-9220 Aalborg, Denmark

4. School of Business Administration, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330032, P.R. China

5. Centre for Innovation & Development, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210094, P.R. China

6. School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

Abstract

Abstract The technical innovation efficiency of farmer professional cooperatives has a far-reaching impact on the economic transformation and development in rural China, but it has been rarely studied. Addressing this gap, this article builds an index evaluating system for the technical innovation efficiency of provinces through a three-stage data envelopment analysis model that measures the relative efficiency of the technical innovation of cooperatives in China’s thirty-one provinces. The results show that the Eastern and Central provinces in China are more efficient than the Western provinces in terms of the technical innovation efficiency of farmer professional cooperatives. However, due to the lack of sustainable innovative capability of these cooperatives, investment redundancy is common in technical innovation. Besides, the impact of the external technology environment on the technical innovation of provincial farmer professional cooperatives is significant, and the scale of the rural market greatly incentivizes the cooperative technical innovation. Some policy suggestions are accordingly proposed.

Funder

National Social Science Foundation of China

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research

SDC

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Public Administration,Geography, Planning and Development

Link

http://academic.oup.com/spp/article-pdf/47/3/410/33429766/scaa022.pdf

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