Article history: Received 11 February 2014 Received in revised form 17 July 2014 Accepted 7 October 2014 Available online 28 October 2014 Innovation efficiency is an effectivemeasure of an enterprise's innovation level. This study focuses on those factors that decide the innovation efficiency of Chinese private enterprises, and on the impacts that political relations and financing constraints h...

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