Do Education and Science & Technology Expenditure Competition between Local Governments Promote Innovation?——Empirical Research Based on Provincial Panel Data

The existing research always focuses on the government general input level of education and science technology and its economic consequences,but ignores that the government hierarchy incentives may play a role.Utilizing China's provincial panel data and a spatial econometric model,we find some evidence that the local government expenditure on education and science technology will affect the human capital level and the knowledge innovation incentives,thus affecting the technological progress and innovation level.In particular,this effect manifested as a negative spillover effect,that is,a local government to increase own education and science technology expenditure will reduce innovation in adjacent areas,which may lead to vicious competition in innovation between regions,and may affect the overall innovation and future economic growth.