中国校企合作创新网络空间演化及区域嵌入机制

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Abstract Conventional wisdom, based on conceptual frameworks such as the regional innovation system, the triple helix, and the engaged university, emphasizes that university knowledge spillovers are highly geographically localized and argues that universities should serve local industry and local investment in university research. However, these theories have struggled to explain the increasing use of academic knowledge by firms outside the region. We measure regional embeddedness by aggregating the network embeddedness of firms at the regional level. We utilize the co-applied patent records between 1,291 universities and 37,823 firms in China from 2008 to 2022 to construct the university-firm collaborative innovation network. The study finds that: 1) The university-firm collaborative innovation network is dominated by self-absorption within universities’home regions and interaction among four urban agglomerations, namely the BeijingTianjin region, the Chengdu-Chongqing region, and the Yangtze and Pearl River deltas. 2) Regional embeddedness shows a decreasing trend from coastal to inland areas. 3) The extent to which a region is embedded within the network depends mainly on the innovation capacity of its firms and the level of economic development, and the impact of the academic resource endowment within the region is relatively weak.

Key words： collaborative innovation innovation network industry-university-research network embeddedness social network analysis

Received: 18 September 2024

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YE Lei,HAO Jun,HU Sen-lin等. SPATIAL EVOLUTION OF UNIVERSITY-FIRM COOPERATIVE INNOVATION NETWORK AND THE EMBEDDING MECHANISM OF REGIONAL FIRMS IN CHINA[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2025, 40(3): 125-132,183.

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