行政边界对产学合作研究绩效的影响-以广东省为对象的实证分析

Exploring the effect of political borders on university-industry collaborative research performance: Evidence from China’s Guangdong province

摘要:

本文研究了行政边界对产学合作研究绩效的影响。首先,假设跨区域与区域内的行政边界对跨界产学合作研究绩效有抑制作用。其次,为将边界效应从空间距离效应中分离出来,本文区分了行政边界和地理距离,并基于广东省681项产学合作研究项目的数据集,对行政边界效应进行了实证分析。研究结果显示,区域内的行政边界对产学合作研究绩效有负面影响,而跨区域的行政边界则没有体现出抑制效应。研究结果对不同的因变量和回归方法具有较强的鲁棒性。最后,总结了本文的研究发现对跨界产学合作研究管理和相关政策的理论贡献以及实践启示。

Abstract:

This paper investigates how political borders affect university-industry (U-I) collaborative research performance. It is hypothesized that cross- and within-regional political borders have an inhibitory effect on cross-border U-I collaborative research performance. The empirical research considers political borders and geographic distance to disentangle the border effect from the spatial distance effect based on a novel dataset comprising 681 U-I collaborative research projects in China’s Guangdong province. The results confirm the hypothesis that within-regional political border has a negative impact on U-I collaborative research performance, while an inhibitory effect of cross-regional political border was not observed. The results are robust for alternative dependent variables and different regression methods. Theoretical contributions and practical implications for cross-border U-I collaborative research management and policies are discussed.