Foreign-owned Enterprises,Multidimensional Relatedness Interactions,and the Path Upgrade of China's Regional Industries
This paper constructs a framework to analyze the interactive relationship between foreign-owned enterprises(FOEs)and local multi-channel interactions.It quantitatively measures multidimensional relatedness indicators and demonstrates the evolutionary paths of FOEs and Chinese regional industries.The study investigates how the interactive relationship between FOEs and multidimensional relatedness jointly influences the upgrading of regional industrial paths.The main conclusions are as follows:1)The evolutionary process of Chinese regional industries involves path upgrading,with stronger trends observed in the eastern regions.2)FOEs can promote the upgrading of China's regional industrial paths by breaking through technological and capital relatedness.3)A favorable institutional environment helps strengthen the positive role of FOEs'technological and capital channels in promoting the upgrading of regional industrial paths.4)The roles of FOEs'technological and capital relatedness exhibit complementary and reinforcing effects,thus achieving multiple interactive channels that jointly drive the upgrading of regional industrial paths.The research findings have theoretical value in understanding the complex dynamic relationship between FOEs and local interactions,and conducting multidimensional relatedness research from an evolutionary economic geography perspective.The construction of quantitative indicators helps uncover the"black box"of industrial relatedness,making the policy implications of evolutionary economic geography research more evident.