Study On The Coupling Coordination Degree Between Innovation Performance Of National High-tech Zones And Urban Innovation Environment

The national high-tech industrial zone is the foreland of scientific and technological innovation,while the city where the zone is located,as the external environment for innovation,directly affects the zone’s development.The coordination and interaction between the two are particularly important.As China’s economy has entered a state of “new normal”,the pressure of economic downturn has been growing,and it is critical to find the new poles of sustainable economic growth.In this context,the national high-tech industrial zones and the cities have been endowed with new historical missions.Government,industry,university and institute synergetic innovation and in-depth “coupling” have become the inevitable course of upgrade and transformation of industrial structure,enhancement of regional synergetic innovation capacity,and thorough implementation of the strategy of innovation-driven development.This thesis integrated and extended the coupled-mode theory and the regional synergetic innovation theory,and presented four interrelated sub-studies.Firstly,the author incorporated the innovation environment of the city into the innovation system of the national high-tech industrial zone,and the “five-four structure” was developed for the innovation systems of national high-tech industrial zones,based on the “high-tech zone-innovation network-city”integrated system.A quantitative analysis was further made over the components and coupling mechanism of the innovation system.Secondly,a quantitative analysis was made on the innovative performance of the national high-tech industrial zones,and an index system for the innovation performance of national high-tech industrial zones was constructed based on three dimensions: economic scale,technological innovation and sustainable development.The innovation performances of the 82 national high-tech industrial zones from 2012 to 2019 were then measured by applying a hybrid model combining data envelopment analysis(DEA)and entropy weight method(EWM),from the individual,time,space and other related dimensions.Thirdly,a study was conducted on the innovation environments of the cities where the national high-tech zones are located.The innovation environment evaluation index system was constructed based on the pressure-state-response(PSR)model,and the building of the innovation environment of the 82 cities was evaluated by the entropy weight method(EWM).Lastly,based on the comprehensive evaluation of the two subsystems,this thesis measured the coupling coordination levels between the innovation performances of the high-tech industrial zones and the innovation environments of the cities by adopting the coupling coordination degree model,and further indirectly discussed the development of the innovation function element.Global Moran’s I was then used to examine the spatial agglomeration of the coupling coordination degree of the two subsystems,and the Tobit regression model was used to empirically analyze the factors influencing the coupling relation between the high-tech industrial zone,the subject of innovation and the city,the external innovation environment.Through the aforementioned studies,the author found that:(1)there are significant gaps between different high-tech industrial zones in terms of innovation performance.A “pyramid”structure was demonstrated.During the investigation period,the index fluctuates up first and then gradually drops,with the western high-tech industrial zones recording the highest average value and the central ones showing the fastest growth rate.(2)The innovation environment indexes of eastern,western and central cities all increase steadily during the investigation period.The innovation environments of western cities are distinctly better than the western and central ones,and the gaps have been enlarging.(3)The coupling coordination degree of the national high-tech industrial zones and the cities’ innovation environments generally fluctuates upward,and the national index has risen from the stage of moderate disorder to the state of primary synergy.The mismatch between the zones and the cities has been primarily improved.(4)As for the coupling coordination degree of the two subsystems,it manifests the spatial pattern of “strong in the east,weak in the west,high in the south,low in the north”.The differentiation of the coupling coordination degrees among different regions has been narrowing.(5)There is no significant spatial autocorrelation in the coupling coordination degree.The development momentum of the national high-tech industrial zones in cities like Beijing,Shanghai and Shenzhen is relatively weak,and their role in driving the hinterland cities has not been fully played.(6)Expansion of the high-tech industrial zones helps improve the coupling coordination degree,while the city’s infrastructure and its innovation environment are significantly negatively correlated.Government support is in significant positive correlation with the city’s innovation environment,and trade openness has a relatively remarkable positive impact on the coupling coordination degree.Based on the above findings,the author suggested to:(1)improve the infrastructure network construction and make overall planning of infrastructure integration and coordination;(2)build healthy and well-organized factor markets and propel integrated reform of the factor markets;and(3)improve the benefit sharing mechanism of synergetic innovation and facilitate integrated construction of the innovation network platform.