Abstract:This paper studied the R D manipulation and motivation of listed companies from 2008 to 2016, and its impact on the innovation efficiency of listed companies. Firstly, the existence of R D manipulation of listed companies is demonstrated by regression discontinue method. Secondly, this paper empirically analysed the relationship between R D manipulation and its financing constraint motivation. Finally, this study examines the influence of listed companies" R D manipulation and financing constraints on their innovation efficiency. The main conclusions of the study include three points: first, there was a significant phenomenon of listed companies" R D manipulation around the R D threshold; Second, R D manipulation significantly helped companies to ease financing constraints; Third, the innovation efficiency of non- manipulation companies above the R D threshold was significantly reduced, at the same time the innovation efficiency of R D manipulation companies was not significantly improved. This result indicated the existence of innovation resource redundancy. The research demonstrates the new motivation of R D manipulation, further clarifies the relationship between R D manipulation and innovation efficiency, and has some enlightenment on promoting the innovation supervision of listed companies.