Abstract:At the same time of increasing the investment scale of R&D factors, market distortion of R&D factors can easily lead to waste of innovation resources and low efficiency, especially at present, the market mechanism of R&D factors is not perfect, and irrational R&D policies may even aggravate this phenomenon. Based on the analysis of the impact mechanism of R&D policy, market distortion of R&D factors and innovation efficiency, this paper selects provincial panel data from 2000 to 2019 to investigate the direct impact of R&D policy on innovation efficiency and the impact of regional differences, and then explores the transmission path of the impact. The results show that the market of R&D factors has a certain degree of reverse distortion and obvious regional differences. The heterogeneity effect of R&D policy is significant, and the implementation effect is best in the east, moderate in the middle and west, and worst in the northeast. In the path exploration, R&D subsidies, household registration management, and financial incentives all affect the distortion of R&D capital and R&D personnel factor market and affect innovation efficiency, while intellectual property protection only affects the distortion of R&D capital market and innovation efficiency.