Research on correlation between science popularization and technological progress based on panel data

Under the new historical condition, strengthening the communication and popularization of science and technology is both the requirement to implement the national development strategy and need for social development as well as the basis and key point for the development of popularization of science itself. Relevant data of five characteristic indexes, talents, funds, place, communication and activity of since popularization of China from 2004 to 2010 are selected and grey relational grade analysis method is adopted for quantitative analysis on the correlation between these indexes and scientific and technological progress. The result shows that there exists a relatively strong correlation between science popularization activity and scientific and technological progress and that the correlation between science popularization funds and scientific and technological progress is relatively low.