关键词: 自主创新, 本土市场效应, 本土企业

Abstract: This paper carefully examines the mechanism of the home-market effect on independent innovation of Chinese Firms based on the data of micro manufacturing firms in China from 2001 to 2007. Using the Probit model, we found that home-market effect exists in the independent innovation of Chinese Firms，no matter from the of view of innovation inputs and innovation outputs. Further study, we found that domestic market segmentation, income gap and process of marketization played a significant effect on the home market effect. But this significant effect is different According to the ownership of the firms. The main results prove robust after controlling for endogenity with instrument variables.