Innovation Leadership in National Central Cities: Evidence from Corporate Off-site Collaborative Innovation

WANG Wei; SHI Ting-ting; JIANG Zhi-xin

Volume 39 Issue 1

Jan. 2024

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WANG Wei, SHI Ting-ting, JIANG Zhi-xin. Innovation Leadership in National Central Cities: Evidence from Corporate Off-site Collaborative Innovation[J]. Journal of Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, 2024, 39(1): 19-35.

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WANG Wei, SHI Ting-ting, JIANG Zhi-xin. Innovation Leadership in National Central Cities: Evidence from Corporate Off-site Collaborative Innovation[J]. Journal of Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, 2024, 39(1): 19-35.

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Innovation Leadership in National Central Cities: Evidence from Corporate Off-site Collaborative Innovation

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School of Economics, Gansu Political Science and Law University, Lanzhou 730070
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Department of Commerce, Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, Beijing 100710
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School of Accounting, Guangdong Technology College, Zhaoqing 526100, China

Received Date: 2023-08-10
Available Online: 2024-01-30
Publish Date: 2024-01-28

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The national central city shoulders the important mission of leading regional economic development and promoting regional opening up. Their leading roles in innovation will provide a good platform for enterprise cooperation and innovation. Taking national central cities as the research object, central city construction is regarded as a quasi-natural experiment by using a difference-in-differences model to identify the impact of national central city construction on off-site collaborative innovation among enterprises. The results indicate that the construction of national central cities can significantly increase the number of joint patent applications between central cities and enterprises in other cities. The innovation-driven effect of national central cities is obvious. The heterogeneity analysis shows that the construction of national central cities had a stronger impact on the eastern region, private enterprises, and long-distance cooperative innovation within the same discipline. The mechanism test suggests that the national central cities influence the remote collaborative innovation among enterprises by improving market integration, promoting regional industrial divisions, and enhancing economic ties. Further research demonstrates that the innovation-leading effect of national central cities is of limited scope, but the quality of long-distance cooperative innovation among enterprises is higher, and the sustainability and stability of innovation are better. Therefore, local governments should effectively utilize the opportunities of national central city construction to promote inter-city enterprise collaborative innovation, and promote the high-quality development of enterprises.
- national central city,
- market integration,
- corporate innovation,
- off-site collaborative innovation,
- unified national market,
- city cluster

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