Abstract:The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the implementation of innovation-driven development strategy, which established that innovation is the primary driving force for development. How effective is the implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy? This paper analyzes the basic path of implementing the innovation-driven development strategy from the perspective of identification of high-tech enterprise , and uses part of the data of high-tech enterprise identification in Guangdong province to empirically test its implementation effect. The results show that the identification of high-tech enterprise has currently promoted enterprises to increase innovation input and obtain innovation output, but the increase in innovation input and innovation output hasn’t driven the development of the enterprise. In the further inspection, it is found that there are obvious enterprise-scale differences in the impact of innovation input on innovation output. Among them, there are obvious enterprise-scale differences in the impact of R&D on innovation output. However, there are no enterprise-scale differences in the impact of R&D expenditure per capital of technicians on innovation output. The research results of this article can not only be used as an attempt to evaluate the implementation effect of innovation-driven development strategies, but also provide a certain reference for formulating policies when identifying high-tech enterprises.