The Agglomeration Modes And Influencing Factors Of Tianjin Producer Services

With the adjustment of the global industrial structure and the rapid development of service industry, the producer services has already become one of the leading industries in many developed countries, as well as the new power sources in some emerging developing countries. Comparing with the manufacturing, the producer services are showing more obvious agglomeration features, and becoming an important driving force to promote urban economy. At present, Tianjin is facing an excellent opportunity for the development of its producer services, and its producer services agglomeration areas are increasing simultaneously in quantity, type and size. Whether the producer services will become the new engine to stimulate the economic growth of Tianjin, determines whether Tianjin can play the role of “the north economic center” and the agglomeration and radiation effects well, thereby giving impetus to the development of the whole Bohai rim. Therefore, this article chooses the agglomeration modes and influencing factors of Tianjin producer services as the research objects, and adopts innovative methods to explore the law of agglomeration development of Tianjin producer services, tries to provide certain theoretical supports and references for it. This article firstly divides the agglomeration modes of existing agglomeration areas of Tianjin producer services into typical modes and innovative modes, and researches the basic characteristics of each mode through the typical case; then,based on the “diamond model” which putted forward by Porter in the New Competitive Advantage Theory, this article does a theoretical analysis and an empirical test on the influencing factors of Tianjin producer services; finally, this article proposes the policy suggestions for the agglomeration development of Tianjin producer services based on the analysis results.This article is divided into six chapters: In the first chapter, the paper introduces the background, significance, foreign and domestic researches, contents, methods and innovation points of the research, and the technology roadmap is given too; in the second chapter, the paper introduces the basic concepts of producer services, the main relative theories of industrial agglomeration, and the general situation of the researches about industrial agglomeration modes; in the third chapter, the paper focused on the typical and innovative modes of Tianjin producer services agglomerations, on the basis of the analysis of the current situation of the development and the agglomeration areas of Tianjin producer services; in the fourth chapter, the paper firstly elaborates the reasons why to use Porter’s“diamond model” as the basis of analysis, and then, theoretically analyses their influences on the agglomeration of the producer services on the basis of the six elements of the“diamond model”; in the fifth chapter, based on the results of the theoretical analysis of the fourth chapter, the paper uses the panel data of 2005-2012 of the six major producerservices in Tianjin, and does an empirical research on the influencing factors of Tianjin producer services agglomeration; finally, based on the analysis results of chapter 3, 4, 5, the sixth chapter gives the policy suggestions for the agglomeration development of Tianjin producer services.The main conclusions are as follows: Firstly, there are already many different types of producer services agglomeration modes in Tianjin. On the one hand, in the typical modes,the mainstreams are the embedded mode, in which the market mechanism plays a leading role, and the government plays supporting functions, and the exogenous mode, in which the government to play a decisive effect; On the other hand, the innovative modes of agglomeration are continuously initiating and developing, and they may become the new trends in the agglomeration development of Tianjin producer services. Secondly, the results of empirical research show that, the agglomeration effect has significant positive effects on the agglomeration of the transportation, warehousing and postal services, the information transmission, computer services and software industry and the leasing and business services;The market demand condition has significant positive effects on the agglomeration of all the producer service sectors except for the financial sector; The externality of industrial association has significant positive effects on the agglomeration of the information transmission, computer services and software industry, the financial industry, the scientific research, technical services and geological prospecting industry; The horizontal cooperation and competition has significant positive effects on the agglomeration of all the producer service sectors except for the information transmission, computer services and software industry. However, the effects of both the externality of industrial association and the horizontal cooperation and competition are not very strong; The government’s policy has played a very strong role in promoting the agglomeration of the transportation,warehousing and postal services, the information transmission, computer services and software industry, as well as the financial sector of Tianjin; The senior talents only have significant positive effects on the agglomeration of the financial sector and the leasing and business services, and the effects are not strong.