Abstract:Abstract: To figure out the dynamic interaction between government subsidy intensity, R&D investment and enterprise performance. This research made an empirical study based on the PVAR model and the balanced panel data of 343 listed companies in Chinese A-share market from 2013 to 2022 to explore the dynamic and complex causality among government subsidy intensity, R&D investment and enterprise performance containing the lagging items. The results showed that there is crowding-out effect between government subsidy intensity and enterprise R&D investment. The positive effect of enterprise R&D investment on enterprise performance only holds in central enterprises, western enterprises and state-owned enterprises. Enterprises in eastern regions and non-state-owned enterprises are more willing to invest the enterprise performance they have achieved into enterprise R&D. Among the heterogeneous groups, government subsidy intensity has not played a positive role in enterprise R&D investment and innovation performance. The following suggestions are put forward accordingly. Policy resources and enterprise innovation resources have crowding-out effect, and enterprises and government should jointly build coordination mechanism to avoid resource waste. The R&D investments of the central and western regions enterprises and state-owned enterprises were beneficial to enterprise performance, so they should be sustainly supported.The non-state-owned enterprises and eastern region enterprises had a strong desire of innovation, while they can not help the improvement of enterprise performance. So it was necessary to explore the effective path of transforming R&D investment into enterprise performance. Government guidance should be strengthen. The effect of government subsidies is not ideal enough, so a variety of policy tools should be taken for different policy audiences.