Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development (SSCHD 2020)

The Impact of High-Tech Enterprises’ Cash Holdings on R&D Investment

Authors
Hongchuan Zhang
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Hongchuan Zhang
Available Online 23 January 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.210121.175How to use a DOI?
Keywords
High-tech enterprises, Cash holdings, R&D investment, Financing constraint
Abstract

With the convening of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our country has firmly implemented the innovation-driven development strategy. As microeconomic entities, enterprises should actively respond to the call of the country to transform economic development patterns and strive to enhance the level of scientific research and innovation. Therefore, it is becoming more and more important to study how to strengthen enterprise innovation and R&D investment. Financing channels have always been one of the important factors affecting enterprises’ R&D investment. Previous studies have shown that the funds supporting R&D activities of enterprise are mainly the cash held within the company. Therefore, this paper studies the influence of cash holding level on R&D investment intensity with the samples of China’s A-share listed high-tech enterprises from 2014 to 2018. The empirical results show that there is a significant positive correlation between cash holdings of Chinese high-tech enterprises and their R&D input, and the positive effect is more significant in non-state-owned enterprises and enterprises with high degree of marketization. This study expands the relationship between the level of enterprise R&D investment and financing constraints, and deepens the understanding of cash holdings.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development (SSCHD 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
23 January 2021
ISBN
978-94-6239-320-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.210121.175How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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