Attraction or Repulsion? Testing Coagglomeration of Innovation between Firm and University
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This paper identifies the extent of how universities are attracted by firms in patents production. The findings are based on a large patent dataset from Shenzhen, the first innovation-led city in the People’s Republic of China.
Through a spatial point process analysis technique, the authors found varying attraction and repulsion distances between the same type of innovative units and across university-firm innovation pairs. Attractions are shown within identical technology fields and across different technology fields. Weak support is offered to the integration of firms into the university-led innovation clusters in science parks. Firm innovations in the technological fields like human necessities, physics, and electrical should deserve more policy attention.