The Territorial Dynamics of Innovation in China

摘要：

Is innovative activity a random walk over geographical space? The purpose of this paper is to show that the territorial dynamics of innovation in China are far from spatial randomness. Using three measures of spatial statistics and province-level data on R&D personnel, R&D expenditure and patents granted, we found that, for R&D activity in China, its degree of spatial agglomeration increases remarkably while its geographic range shrinks and its center of gravity moves eastward between 2000 and 2005. In addition, R&D activity is primarily a regional phenomenon in China. The east has advantage in innovative capacity over the west, and the south and north narrow the gap in innovative efficiency between 2000 and 2005. Our results provide strong evidence that agglomeration economies and geography are the driving force behind the intensification and regionaliza-tion of innovation in China.

关键词： Innovation Territorial Dynamics Dgglomeration China

作者: Zuoquan ZHAO Dunjiang SONG

作者单位: Chinese Academy of Sciences,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2008(创新与创业国际学术会议)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 134-136

在线出版日期: 2008-03-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）