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

摘要： 地方政府在区域创新发展中发挥着重要的推动作用，但中国区域创新政策体系不完善，创新政策路线走向不明朗。本文从政策主体、政策工具、政策目标三方面构建创新政策比较分析框架。利用该框架，对中国江苏省和美国加州省（州）级政府出台的创新政策进行比较分析。研究发现，江苏省和加州均采用了供给类、需求类和环境类创新政策工具。江苏省主要采用供给类创新政策工具，加州则更加偏好采用环境类创新政策工具。江苏省的创新政策具有政出多门、多头管理的突出特点，而加州创新管理采用大部制，政策主体与创新政策工具之间基本形成“一对一”的对应关系。本文的研究为中国区域创新政策制定提供了有益的借鉴与启示。

关键词: 地方政府, 区域创新政策, 国际比较, 江苏与加州