Honesty and R&D Investment—Take Guangdong Province as an Example ()
ABSTRACT
This paper adopted the 30 provinces in 2006-2016 (except Tibet and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) of R&D input, honesty and economic variable data, set up a panel data model, studied the honesty degree of influence R&D input, then used the level panel data from 2006 to 2017 in Guangdong province, to strengthen the honesty degree of the empirical test results of R&D input. The results show that the higher the level of honesty, the more investment in R&D will be brought in, and the country’s technological strength as well as core competitiveness will be stronger. On the contrary, the lower level of honesty leads to lower R&D investment; second, the degree of honesty has a significant positive impact on R&D investment in the eastern region, while in the central and western regions the degree of honesty have no significant impact on R&D investment; finally, the honesty of Guangdong prefecture-level cities has a significant positive effect on R&D investment.
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Liu, M. (2018) Honesty and R&D Investment—Take Guangdong Province as an Example.
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
6, 143-156. doi:
10.4236/jss.2018.64013.
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