Pilot governance and the rise of China's innovation

Zheng, Shilin; Li, Zhaochen

doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2020.101521

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“…where M represents intermediary variable and other regression variables are consistent with Model (1). According to Baron and Kenny, to establish a partial mediation relationship between IICP policy and regional innovation, the following conditions must be held: (a) IICP policy must have a positive effect on regional innovation in Model (1), which has been confirmed above, (b) IICP policy should have a positive impact on intermediary variable in the first equation of Model ( 2), (c) the intermediary variable must have a positive effect on regional innovation in the second equation of Model (2), and (d) the effect of the IICP policy on regional innovation must be less in Model (2) than that in Model (1). Perfect mediation holds if the direct effect of the IICP policy on regional innovation is not significant in Model (2).…”

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confidence: 53%

“…e role of innovation in economic growth has become widely accepted. Over the past three decades, China's innovation has experienced rapid and sustained improvement [1]. According to the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2021, which was jointly released by the World Intellectual Property Organization, Cornell University, and the European Institute of Business Administration, China's ranking has risen to 12th, becoming the only middle-income economy in the top 30 GII economies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Since China is a country with vast territory and enormous regional differences, the necessity for local experiments is pronounced. On the one hand, the experiments and explorations of policies by local governments can provide samples for national governance and enable the central government to gain experience from a local pilot reform pioneer [1]. On the other hand, the central government can promote such a bottom-up experiment to a national strategy and duplicate the pilot experience to more regions by a top-down strategic deployment, thus triggering the development of the whole country [5].…”

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“…For example, Yao and Whalley believed that the main impacts of pilot free trade zone (PFTZ) are not on the amount of its trade volume or foreign investment, but on the promotion of institutional innovation [6]. Zheng and Li took high-tech industrial development zones (HIDZs) as the research object and confirmed that HIDZ pilot governance is conducive to the rise of innovation in China [1]. Using PSM-DID method, Ma and Li found that the pilot policy of combining technology with finance has a significant positive effect on the level of regional innovation [7].…”

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The Impact of Innovative Industrial Cluster Policy on Regional Innovation: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

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As important carriers of local innovation activities, innovative industrial clusters are attracting increasing attention. Therefore, several countries have started promotion policies for innovative industrial clusters. However, there are few empirical studies on relevant policies. This paper investigates the impact of China’s “innovative industrial cluster pilot” (IICP) policy on regional innovation. Taking the implementation of IICP policy as a quasi-natural experiment and using the panel data of 266 prefecture-level cities in China in 2008-2019, this paper provides strong evidence that IICP policy promotes regional innovation. The conclusion still holds after a battery of robustness checks. The heterogeneity test shows that the promoting effect of IICP policy on innovation is more significant in central and western region than in eastern region. Moreover, the lower the city administrative level and the lower the dependence on natural resource, the more prominent the innovation effect of IICP policy. Further, the mechanism test shows that the IICP policy can promote regional innovation indirectly by strengthening government support for innovation and attracting the agglomeration of science and technological talents, but the mediation effect of industrial structure has not been verified.

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“…The greater the institutions' participation in the park construction, the better the parks' innovation performance will be [12][13][14]. High-tech enterprises, especially high-quality foreign investment agglomeration, are also an important reason for the parks' improved innovation level [15][16][17].…”

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The Dynamic Value of China’s High-Tech Zones: Direct and Indirect Influence on Urban Ecological Innovation

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China’s High-tech Industrial Development Zones (HTZ) are industrial agglomeration areas established by the local government to foster economic innovation. As springboards for cities to implement innovation-driven development strategies, HTZs have significant spillover and driving effects on urban ecological innovation. Based on panel data taken from 215 cities between 2003 and 2016, this paper empirically analyzes the impact of HTZ construction and its mechanisms as they pertain to urban ecological innovation. This analysis is framed by the double difference model and the intermediary effect model. It found that HTZ construction can effectively enhance urban ecological innovation, and formidably promote ecological innovation in central and eastern cities, as well as cities with superior scientific and educational resources. The intermediary mechanism analysis revealed that HTZs result in a policy depression effect, which may promote the agglomeration of urban innovation factors (including high-quality talents and investment), thereby bolstering urban ecological innovation. Moreover, HTZs’ investment agglomeration effect is primarily responsible for driving urban ecological innovation. Indeed, the HTZ construction may not only promote the local ecological innovation, but also have a significant spillover effect on the ecological innovation activities of other cities in the province.

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Are policy mixes in energy regulation effective in curbing carbon emissions? Insights from China's energy regulation policies

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We consider the policy mixes of three categories of energy regulation policies in China: renewable energy law (mandatory policy), low‐carbon city pilot (voluntary policy), and carbon emissions trading system (market‐based policy). The mix of mandatory, voluntary, and market‐based policies mitigates 4.359 million metric tons of carbon emissions. Voluntary and market‐based energy policies work, while mandatory policy fails due to rent‐seeking by local officials. Policy mixes are more effective in undeveloped and politically average regions than in developed and politically rich ones. Government attention, industrial structure, and green innovation are the economic mechanisms; consistency, coherence, credibility, and comprehensiveness are the policy mechanisms. Our study highlights that policy category, rather than policy quantity, matters more in determining policy effect.

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Pilot governance and the rise of China's innovation

Cited by 41 publications

References 22 publications

The Impact of Innovative Industrial Cluster Policy on Regional Innovation: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

The Impact of Innovative Industrial Cluster Policy on Regional Innovation: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

The Dynamic Value of China’s High-Tech Zones: Direct and Indirect Influence on Urban Ecological Innovation

Are policy mixes in energy regulation effective in curbing carbon emissions? Insights from China's energy regulation policies

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