Research Article

Application of Multiattribute Decision-Making for Evaluating Regional Innovation Capacity

Table 1

Regional innovation capacity evaluation indicator system

Primary indicatorsSecondary indicatorsTertiary indicatorsDescription

Regional innovation capacityKnowledge creationRegional technology manpower investment (C1)Average full-time personnel equivalent of research and experimental development per 10,000 population (person-years per 10,000 population)
Regional government R&D investment (C2)Government investment in R&D as a percentage of GDP (%)
Output capacity of R&D personnel in universities and research institutes (C3)Number of invention patent applications per 100 million yuan of internal expenditure on R&D (cases/billion yuan)
Output efficiency of R&D personnel in universities and research institutes (C4)Number of patents granted per 10,000 R&D personnel for inventions (pieces per 10,000)
Output efficiency of R&D funds in universities and research institutes (C5)Number of invention patents granted per 100 million yuan of internal expenditure on R&D activities (cases/billion)
Publication of journal papers at home and abroad (C6)Average number of papers published per 100,000 R&D personnel (per 100,000)
Knowledge acquisitionRegional knowledge cooperation (C7)Number of coauthored scientific and technical papers per 100,000 R&D staff (per 100,000)
Cooperation between enterprises and universities and research institutes (C8)The proportion of internal expenditure on research and development at universities and research institutes from corporate funds (%)
Technology flow (C9)Technical market transaction amount (by flow) (10,000 yuan)
Enterprise acquisition of technical capabilities (C10)Expenditure on the purchase/introduction of technology by industrial enterprises above scale (10,000 yuan)
Regional ability to use foreign capital (C11)Foreign share of registered capital of foreign-invested enterprises per capita at the end of the year (10,000 dollars)
Enterprise innovationEnterprise R&D personnel input capability (C12)Share of R&D personnel employed in industrial enterprises above scale (%)
Enterprise R&D funding investment capacity (C13)Total internal expenditure on R&D activities of industrial enterprises above scale as a proportion of sales revenue (%)
Enterprise R&D output capacity (C14)Average number of invention patent applications per 10,000 R&D personnel in industrial enterprises above scale (pieces per 10,000)
Enterprise core technology level (C15)Average number of useful invention patents per 10,000 industrial enterprises above scale (pieces per 10,000 units)
Enterprise new product development capability (C16)Share of sales revenue from new products in sales revenue of industrial enterprises above scale (%)
Innovation environmentRegional market openness (C17)Total exports and imports by destination and source of goods as a share of GDP (%)
Regional talent training (C18)Expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP (%)
Quality of local workers (C19)Proportion of the population aged six years and above with tertiary education (%)
Financial institution support (C20)Loans obtained from financial institutions out of the amount of internal expenditure on research and development of industrial enterprises above scale (RMB 10,000)
The proportion of high-tech enterprises (C21)Number of high-technology enterprises as a proportion of the number of industrial enterprises above scale (%)
Incubation capacity of technology business incubators (C22)Number of technology business incubators graduating in a year (number of enterprises)
Regional economic development level (C23)Number of technology business incubators graduating in a year (number of enterprises) GDP level per capita (yuan/person)
Regional sustainability (C24)Integrated value of regional energy consumption and sewage emissions1

1The integrated value is obtained after the dimensionless treatment of the energy consumption (equivalent value) of the regional GDP, the total power consumption, the total discharge of industrial sewage, and the discharge of major pollutants in the exhaust gas.