Table 2.

Construction of the index system for measuring the level of foreign R&D activities in China

Primary indicatorsSecondary indicatorsMeaning of the indicatorsIndicator attributesEntropy weightsCombined weights
Total scale（0.55）R&D personnel in full-time equivalentFull-time equivalent of R&D personnel in foreign funded enterprises+0.26310.2247
 R&D expenditureR&D expenditure of foreign funded enterprises+0.16510.1410
 Patents for inventionsNumber of patents for inventions in foreign funded enterprises+0.21580.1843
Per capita level（0.30）Full-time equivalent of R&D personnel per capitaFull-time equivalent of R&D personnel in foreign funded enterprises / average number of employees in foreign funded enterprises+0.04490.0840
 R&D expenditure per capitaR&D expenditure of foreign funded enterprises / average number of employees in foreign funded enterprises+0.03690.0690
 Patents for inventions per capitaPatents for inventions in foreign funded enterprises/average number of employees in foreign funded enterprises+0.07860.1470
Dependency degree （0.15）Personnel dependencyPercentage of full-time equivalent of R&D personnel in foreign funded enterprises to full-time equivalent of R&D personnel in all enterprises+0.07410.0568
 Financial dependencyPercentage of R&D expenditures of foreign funded enterprises in the R&D expenditures of all enterprises+0.05620.0431
 Patent dependencyPercentage of invention patents of foreign funded enterprises in the total number of enterprise invention patents+0.06540.0501
Source(s): Authors’ own work
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