The smart specialization development of in-novative cities is of great significance for the country to achieve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance.How to improve the development level of smart specialization in innova-tive cities is a hot topic for local governments and academics.This paper takes national innovative cities as cases and combines the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis(fsQCA)method to explore the driving path for the development level of urban high smart specialization.The findings are as follows:A single varia-ble cannot constitute the necessary conditions for the develop-ment level of smart specialization in innovative cities,but high-quality and efficient market environment has a general effect on the development level of smart specialization in innovative cit-ies.There are three driving paths to produce the high level of smart specialization in innovative cities:the joint drive of scien-tific and technological innovation and market environment,the joint drive of government scale and green development,and the joint drive of government scale,market environment and infra-structure,which reflect the different ways of realizing the devel-opment level of smart specialization in different innovative cities.There are six configurations of non-high smart specialization development level in innovation-oriented cities,indicating that the technological innovation ability and market environment of cities have a great impact on the development level of smart spe-cialization.There are differences in the driving paths for the de-velopment level of smart specialization in innovative cities in eastern,central,western and northeastern regions of China.Lo-cal governments can design smart specialization development paths that meet their own characteristics according to the actual situation.
innovative citythe development level of smart specializationconfiguration analysisfuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis(fsQCA)
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