Research on the Innovation Effect of Higher Education Resource Clustering Layout in China's Provincial Areas
Provincial agglomeration layout is the basic structure of China's higher education resource spatial layout,and the agglomeration development is the basic path for higher education to support innova-tion growth.Based on the panel data of 23 provinces in China from 2009 to 2017,the innovation effect of provincial higher education resources agglomeration layout in terms of quantity and quality is empirically ana-lyzed.Using the scale-ranking method and the primacy method,the study found that the provincial higher education resources in the sample period show the characteristics of"monocentric"distribution,with highly concentrated in the provincial capital,and the quality resources of higher education are more concentrated than the quantitative resources.The quantitative resources of higher education in some developed provinces show a trend of decentralized layout,gradually developing to the provincial"multi-centre"distribution,but this does not conflict with the basic pattern of agglomeration development.Regression results show that:provincial higher education resource agglomeration has significant inverted U-shaped impact on inventive in-novation and regional heterogeneity,the inverted U-shaped innovation effect of quality resource agglomera-tion is significant in the central and western parts of China and insignificant in the eastern part,while the in-verted U-shaped innovation effect of quantitative resource agglomeration is significant in the eastern part of China and insignificant in the central and western parts of China.Further analyses found that the talent re-source agglomeration of provincial higher education is a more important source of innovation effect than the financial resource agglomeration.There is no conflict between the first-ranking agglomeration layout of pro-vincial higher education resources and the balanced layout in the overall sense of the province.The balanced layout of provincial higher education resources depends on the strong radiation-driven role of the central city,which is the result of further releasing the external agglomeration effect on the basis of fully releasing the internal agglomeration effect,i.e.,the process of"agglomeration-driven dispersion".Adequate agglomeration development of the first city is the necessary precondition for the balanced layout of provincial higher education resources and the formation of"multi-centre"development pattern.The study suggests that the optimization of the provincial higher education resources agglomeration layout should support the construction of innovation highlands and fully release the internal and external agglomeration effect.The suggestions were put forward:Optimizing the layout of provincial higher education resource agglomeration to support the construction of innovative highlands,and fully unleashing the internal and external agglomera-tion effect,optimizing the allocation structure and improving the regional innovation pattern based on the agglomeration layout of higher education resources,based on the current development status of different provinces and regions,classifying and differentiating the layout of the cluster,differentiated layouts,and gradually exploring a multi-center development mode.
provincial higher educationregional innovationagglomeration layoutagglomeration effectscentral distribution
国家科技期刊平台
NSTL
万方数据
维普
