The Contribution Rate Analysis: Economic Increment from Scientific and Technological Innovation to Forest Management Industry

The contribution rate (CR) of scientific and technological innovation has been an important index to evaluate the level of science and technology and the economic development of industry. The Cobb-Douglas function which has widely been applied in the study of Economic Rates of Return(ERR), is limited to be applied in forest management industry. Because forest management industry is a long-term industry and is disturbed seriously by social and natural factors. In that case, we select the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP method), which combines qualitative and quantitative analysis to evaluate CR of forest management industry, and expect to look for the new way to evaluate CR. The results by AHP show that the CR is a 22% in forest management industry, which is in the range of 15%~25%.