关键词: 地方政府, 区域创新政策, 国际比较, 江苏与加州

Abstract: The local governments play an increasingly important role in a region’s innovation-driven development, but the regional innovation policy system in China is imperfect, and the innovation policies route is unclear. The paper builds a comparative analysis framework for innovation policies from three aspects: policy subjects，policy instruments and policy goals. Using this framework, the paper conducts a comparative analysis on the innovation policies between Jiangsu and California which are the two provincial (state-level) administrative regions of China and US. It is found that: (1) Both Jiangsu and California apply supply-sides, demand-sides and environmental-sides policy instruments. Jiangsu mainly applies supply-sides policy instruments, while California prefers to use environmental-sides policy instruments. (2)The overlap of policy making and executive departments is the main characteristics of Jiangsu. Meanwhile California applies Super-Ministry System and forms a “one to one” correspondence between policy subjects and policy instruments. This research provides inspiration and reference for the regional innovation policy making in China.

Key words: local government, regional innovation policy, international comparison, Jiangsu and California