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In 1985 China began the reform of its Science & Technology (S&T) sector inherited from the planned economy. To disclose the impact of the drawn-out reform on the efficiency of the whole sector, we measure the scientific productivity of China's S&T institutes. The analysis is based on R&D input and output data at the country aggregate and provincial level. We utilize Polynomial Distributed Lag model to uncover the structure of the lag between R&D input and output. The findings reveal that the growth rate of scientific productivity of China's S&T institutes has been negative since the 1990s.
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Huang, C., Varum, C. & Gouveia, J. Scientific productivity paradox: The case of China's S&T system. Scientometrics 69, 449–473 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-006-0153-6
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-006-0153-6