Abstract:In order to accurately grasp the level, regional differences and dynamic patterns of China's original innovation curation capabilities, focusing on “curation”, an important antecedent factor affecting original innovation curation capabilities, and taking the connotation of original innovation curation capabilities as a logical starting point. We constructed an evaluation index system of original innovation curation capabilities covering four dimensions: creation of main body, output of results, basic support, and environmental guarantee, and analyzed the original innovation curation capabilities of 31 provincial-level administrative regions in China from 2012 to 2021 by using the relevant statistical yearbook data, the CRITIC-TOPSIS method, the Dagum Gini coefficient, and the Kernel density estimation Detection. The results show that the development of China's original innovation curation capabilities has achieved obvious results, but there is still the problem of imbalance and insufficiency, with only Guangdong, Jiangsu, Beijing and Shanghai fully developed in all dimensions, while most other provinces have deviated from the four dimensions to varying degrees; The annual average Gini coefficient of the overall original innovation curation capabilities is 0.221, with the gap mainly originating from inter-regional disparities, with the largest intra-regional gap in the eastern region and the smallest inter-regional gap in the central and western regions; The original innovation curation capabilities as a whole show an upward and then downward trend, in which the gap within the eastern region shows a trend of expanding and then gradually narrowing, but without polarization, while the absolute gap in the central and western regions shows a trend of expanding, and there is an incipient bipolarization. Finally, recommendations are made in terms of implementing differentiated regulation strategies, enhancing the spatial synergy of original innovation curation and guaranteeing the reserve thickness of original innovation curation capabilities.