Analysis on regional difference of meteorological S&T innovation capability in China

Abstract

This paper selects the relevant meteorological data in 2014-2017 of the seven regions of Chinese mainland divided in accordance with the administrative area to construct the index system of meteorological S&T innovation capability, and then by means of Entropy TOPSIS method to get the values of Ci of the seven regions, and finally calculates the coefficient of variation of those Ci values based on the analysis of the meteorological S&T innovation capability, the innovation environment, the innovation input and output to analyze the developmental differences across regions. The results of this research prove that from 2014 to 2017, the meteorological S&T innovation ability of South China, North China and East China was relatively strong, while that of other regions was relatively weak. Besides, the meteorological S&T innovation ability of each region fluctuated in different years, but by 2017, the differences in innovation ability of meteorological S&T among regions were narrowing.