The Structural Effect of the Airport Economy on Regional Innovation
The airport economy plays an important role in guiding the transformation of regional development mode to innovation driven.The airport economy has a unique"technology-institutional-industry-space"attribute,which can provide leaping conditions for regional innovative development through technological support,institutional arrangements,industrial extension,spatial poles,and other means.The airport economy can enhance urban accessibility and hub status,thereby affecting the level of urban innovation.It can narrow the gap in knowledge intensive service industries between cities,and enable urban agglomerations to evolve towards innovative multi center spatial structures.The airport economy can also provide multi driving force for the regional innovative development,including agglomeration-diffusion superposition force,institutional innovation force,which affects the driving force system of regional innovation.Governments should attach great importance to the leading role of airport economic zones in reform and innovation.It is necessary to improve the modern comprehensive transportation system,build a differentiated cross spatial innovation and cooperation network,thus to stimulate the role of the airport economy in enhancing regional innovation capabilities.