Analysis on the Relationship between Specialization and Innovation of Technology in Chinese Cities

Abstract:

Specialization refers to externalities of the specialization in the form of industrial agglomeration. We pick up the data of 198 prefecture-level cities of China during the years 2007-2009 from the view of the effects of spillover of technology, in order to calculate the specialization index and analyze its features, and finally we study on the data to find out how specialization and diversity can make a contribution to the innovation of civil technology theoretically and practically and make suggestions on the corresponding policies as well. The results suggest that:(1) The relatively specialized industries in the cities of China is stable, and the specialization index of the cities who possess abundant natural resources such as the industries of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and mining is even higher, meanwhile the capital cities own a higher diversity index. (2) Both of educational expense and GDP affect the innovation of urban technology positively and significantly.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 522-524)
• Pages: 1577-1580
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.522-524.1577
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Lei Xia*, Jin Yu Hu
• Keywords: Industrial Agglomeration, Jacobs Externalities, Specification, Technological Innovation

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