The G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor of the Yangtze River Delta:Process from Local Exploration to National Strategy and Future Prospect
As the result of combining"bottom-up"and"top-down"approaches,the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor of the Yangtze River Delta has developed from version 1.0 of spontaneous exploration and vivid practice by local gov-ernment,to version 2.0 of cross-regional cooperation among three cities of Shanghai and Zhejiang,and then to version 3.0 of collaborative innovation among nine cities of Shanghai,Jiangsu,Zhejiang and Anhui.The G60 Corridor 3.0 is a comprehensive one combining the characteristics of innovation cluster driven by science,industry and government,while also incorporating the features of science park,innovation corridor,and urban agglomeration models.Compared with the world's top innovation clus-ters,the G60 Corridor still has room for further improvement in terms of top academic resources,innovative talents,innovation ecosystem,global influence,financial support system and open innovation culture.The future G60 Corridor 4.0 should take en-hancing the technological intensity of innovation clusters as its strategic direction,promote actively its development from single chain collaboration to multi-chain integration and from single core driving model to multi-center linkage approach,and build in-novation ecology with"hub-spoke"structure of multi-chain integration and multi-center linkage.
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