HUBEI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ›› 2021, Vol. 60 ›› Issue (21): 158-165.doi: 10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2021.21.034

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Spatial distribution,evolution and spillover effect of urban innovation capacity in Hunan province

SHI Song-lin, WEN Yan-ping, SONG Xiao-qing   

  1. School of Geography and Information Engineering,China University of Geosciences,Wuhan 430078,China
  • Received:2021-05-17 Online:2021-11-10 Published:2021-11-24

Abstract: With the development of economy and science and technology, urban innovation ability has gradually become the main driving force of urban development and an important factor for cities and countries to gain competitive advantages and rapid development. Taking 14 prefecture-level cities in Hunan province as examples, the development level spatial distribution and spatial evolution characteristics of urban innovation ability of prefecture-level cities in Hunan province from 2009 to 2018 were discussed from five aspects:innovation input, innovation output and effectiveness, innovative talents and science and education resources, industrial technology innovation ability and the level of openness and collaboration. The spatial econometric model (SLM, SEM) was useded to analyze the spatial spillover effect of urban innovation ability on economic development. The results show that, The city of Hunan province urban innovation ability had improved significantly, the overall spatial had been continuously reduced, and the spatial agglomeration situation had weakened. The city innovation ability had obvious zonality gradually increasing from west to east, and the Chang-Zhu-Tan city group was the core area of innovation development in the province. The improvement of urban innovation ability in cities and neighboring cities had a positive spillover effect on economic development.

Key words: urban innovation ability, spatial evolution, spatial spillover effects, regional differences, Hunan province

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