Study on the Innovation Strength of Industrial Enterprises in Harbin City of China

The definition of innovation strength has two levels, it covers all factors directly related to technological inputs and outputs in the narrow sense, while in the broad sense, economic and social development driven by technology promotion is included additionally. Guided by the broad definition, this paper build an evaluation index system which is composed by four sub-modules, namely technology resource, technology input, technology diffusion and technology output. Based on this index system, a comparative study of technology innovation strength between Harbin and other vice-provincial cities is conducted with economic census data from 2005 to 2010. The results show that all 19th vice-provincial cities can be categorized into three levels in accordance with their entrepreneurial innovation strength, and Harbin is listed in the lowest category, although the innovation strength of most industries, especially manufacturing sector, have been improved in the past years. Verifying the driving forces of entrepreneurial innovation strength of Harbin, countermeasures have been put forwarded to promote innovation strength in the following aspects: promoting manufacturing sector, increasing investments, issuing preferential policy, improving awareness of patent preservation as well as speeding application of key and advanced technology.