An Analysis Of The Contribution Of Science And Technology Enterprises In Colleges And Universities To Economic Growth-Taking Liaoning Province As An Example

The basic contradiction of our country that at this stage is the contradiction between the backward social productive forces and people's growing material and cultural needs.However,the only effective method to solve such contradiction is to realize the rapid and stable economic development and our country's stability and prosperity.With the advent of the knowledge economy,China has also implemented the strategy of innovation-driven development and reinvigorating China through human resource development,has placed the innovation and talents cultivation in the first place.What we can see is that our institutions of higher learning are bestowed with unique advantages: a positive academic atmosphere,wide scientific research talent base,a new generation science and technology talents who are full of youthful spirity,complete scientific research instrument and equipment,public and equal academic discuss platform and so on.These all have provided sufficient conditions for University to become the main positions of innovation activities.With the promotion and deepening of the construction process of University,it increasingly plays an important role in innovation activities,not only provide cultivate more and more high-quality professionals for our society,but also provide the community with high-tech scientific and technological innovation research results,in the meanwhile,through the combinations of industry,university and scientific research,University shall integrate with our enterprises to transfer scientific and technological research achievements into realistic productive forces,which makes greater contributions to our economic development.As a traditional old industrial base,Liaoning Province,in the early days of the Founding of People's Republic of China,has made a very big contribution to China's economic development;however,with the gradual depletion of resources and the urgent overall transformation of China's economic structure,it is declining in resource superiority and traditional advantages that Liaoning Province has enjoyed before,and economic restructuring has become the general trend.In order to glow a new economic vitality,Liaoning Province must carry out economic restructuring,and the implementation of which must rely on scientific and technological innovation.Our scientific and technological innovation in colleges and universities has been playing a pivotal role in the innovation system.The university science and technology investment is the material foundation and condition of the university science and technology innovation.To stimulate the innovation and promote the rapid development of the high-tech industry,we must increase the number of university science and technology investment and optimize the allocation of science and technology investment in colleges and universities so that to make the biggest use of them.Based on the theory of economic growth,the theories of technological innovation and national scientific and technological innovation,this paper firstly defines the definitions of science and technology investment in colleges and universities,economic growth and contribution rate,analyzes the present situations of science and technology investment in colleges and universities and economic growth of Liaoning Province,calculates the contribution rate of university science and technology investment to economic growth in Liaoning Province.In addition,on this basis,according to 1999-2014 “Statistical Yearbook of China”,“China Statistical Yearbook on Science and Technology”,as well as university science and technology innovation funds,personnel investment,economic growth and industry structure in Liaoning Province from “Collection of Science and Technology Statistical Data in Higher Education Institutions”,it calculates the capital stock making use of Zhang Jun algorithm,and regards the university science and technology investment as part of the capital stock,carries out the measurement of the contribution degree of economic growth from university science and technology investment with utilizing extended Cobb-Douglas production Function,obtaining a result that with 1% change of university science and technology investment,the pulling effect on the economy is 0.1696%.Then,the contribution degree of economic growth from university science and technology investment in Liaoning Province is compared horizontally with that of Jilin Province,Heilongjiang Province,Beijing,Shanghai,Tianjin and Guangdong Province,reaching a conclusion that Liaoning Province is ranked at the first place of three Northeastern Provinces of China,but lower than Beijing,Shanghai,Tianjin and Guangdong,Shanghai is the highest one.According to the comparison,it is concluded that the more university science and technology investment,the higher contribution of university science and technology investment to economic growth.In the meanwhile,through horizontally comparison,the R & D expenditure of colleges and universities in Liaoning Province accounts for a small proportion of GDP.Finally,according to the results of empirical research,the paper puts forward the countermeasures to enhance the investment of science and technology in Liaoning Province from three dimensions of colleges and universities,enterprises and governments,and opinions to strengthen the role of science and technology investment in Liaoning Province in economic development,to promote successful economic transformation of Liaoning Province,make university science and technology investment play a more important role to economic growth in Liaoning province,to make further steps being the province with powerful economy.