Abstract:This paper builds a panel database of the economic growth and innovation ability of each province and municipality in China from 2010 to 2015, and empirically analyzes the effects of private equity funds on regional innovation capability. The test results show that private equity funds can improve the regional innovation capability, innovation capability of enterprises and innovation performance can positively affect the regional innovation capability, knowledge creation ability has a positive effect on innovation ability of eastern and central areas of China, and knowledge acquisition ability has a negative impact on innovation ability of western area of China. These findings are good inspirations for governments to improve regional innovation capability by developing private equity funds.