Evaluation of the sci-tech service industry based on Factor Analysis - a demonstration study of 30 provinces in China

Author

Yang, Hongtao ; Huang, Huiling

Author_Institution

Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Harbin Eng. Univ., Harbin, China

fYear

2011

fDate

6-9 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

1068

Lastpage

1072

Abstract

This paper attempts to establish an evaluation index system for the sci-tech service industry, and utilizes Factor Analysis to analyze the competitiveness of sci-tech service industry of 30 provinces in China. By using Factor Analysis, this paper extracts three common factors and tries to explain and define them, then ranks the 30 provinces in China according to the score each common factor and comprehensive evaluation. According to the result, we can get the conclusions that the sci-tech service industry of Heilongjiang Province needs to develop and improve. Finally, some countermeasures are put forward to encourage and develop the sci-tech service industry of Heilongjiang Province.

Keywords

research and development; service industries; statistical analysis; technology management; China; Heilongjiang Province; evaluation index system; factor analysis; sci-tech service industry competitiveness; Contracts; Educational institutions; Indexes; Industries; Loading; Technological innovation; Competitiveness; Evaluation index system; Factor analysis; Sci-tech service industry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

ISSN

2157-3611

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0740-7

Electronic_ISBN

2157-3611

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEM.2011.6118079

Filename

6118079