Evaluating R&D investment efficiency in China's high-tech industry

Journal of High Technology Management Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 93-109

  Han, Chunjia ^a   Thomas, Stephen Rhys ^b   Yang, Mu ^b   Ieromonachou, Petros ^a   Zhang, Hongru ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c CHANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China's high tech industry; Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Pure technical efficiency (PTE); R D investment efficiency; Scale efficiency (SE); Technical efficiency (TE)

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY;

HIGH TECH INDUSTRY; INVESTMENT EFFICIENCY; PURE TECHNICAL EFFICIENCIES; SCALE EFFICIENCY (SE); TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 85019134481     PISSN: 10478310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hitech.2017.04.007     Document Type: Article

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