Government Entrepreneurship and Coordinated Regional Development——Research Based on the Perspective of Economic Gap Between the North and the South of China
Coordinating regional development is the key to achieving common prosperity.Based on the provincial panel data from 2009 to 2019,this paper systematically analyzes the influence and mecha-nism of government entrepreneurship on regional coordinated development.It is found that government en-trepreneurship has a significant inhibitory effect on the regional economic gap in general,and this effect in the southern region is more obvious.The mechanism analysis shows that optimizing the allocation of inno-vation resources and improving the innovation environment are important channels for government entrepre-neurship to narrow the regional economic gap.The results of channel heterogeneity analysis show that the effect of government entrepreneurship varies depending on the target audience.The results of the extended analysis show that the southern region has unique advantages in the market environment,informal institu-tions,and private entrepreneurship,which makes the government entrepreneurship in the southern region more powerful in restraining the regional economic gap.To this end,it is necessary to give full play to the government's guiding role in innovation strategy guidance and innovation environment construction,so as to provide effective support for promoting coordinated regional development and achieving common prosperity.
GovernmentEntrepreneurshipRegional coordinated developmentNorth-south eco-nomic gap