Discussion of agricultural biotechnology innovation performance with Data Envelopment Analysis

Agricultural biotechnology has become the first object of National Sci-Tech Programs in biotechnology. Nevertheless, the government selects agriculture and medicine related industries, in the great coverage of biotechnology, as the development focus because the integrated scientific essence of agricultural biotechnology crossing life science, medical science, and agronomy would open the road for agricultural innovation. In order to combine expert opinions and reduce input costs for the selection of inputs and outputs, total 30 copies of questionnaires are distributed for this study, where 25 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 83%. The variable data are acquired from public statistical data of enterprises. The selected DMUs are provincially key leading enterprises of agriculture industrialization in Fujian Province, with indicativeness and representativeness. The research results are concluded as below. One DMU, presents strong form efficiency (=1) of bio-tech innovation, showing the better bio-tech innovation efficiency. Five DMUs reveal margin inefficiency ( between 0.9 and 1) of bio-tech innovation that the bio-tech innovation efficiency can be more easily promoted. Four DMUs appear obvious inefficiency (<0.9) of bio-tech innovation. According to the results, suggestions are eventually proposed, expecting to benefit domestic agricultural bio-tech innovation development.