THE EFFICIENCY OF THE HIGH‐TECH ECONOMY: CONVENTIONAL DEVELOPMENT INDEXES VERSUS A PERFORMANCE INDEX*
使用数据包络分析构建相对效率指数，以最大化高科技产出并最小化五种资源投入，对美国50个州进行效率排名，并与传统指数比较，发现部分州在高科技产业主导地位与经济绩效之间存在差异。
ABSTRACT Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is employed to construct an index of relative efficiencies by maximizing two proxies of high‐tech output subject to minimizing five specific resources often associated with high‐tech infrastructure. This approach ranks the 50 U.S. states from the most robustly efficient to the most robustly inefficient. The DEA approach avoids using equal or subjective weights employed in the New State Economy Index rankings. The ranking of the 50 states yields some interesting differences between some states' dominance in high‐tech industries and their economic performance.