ABSTRACT

The various knowledge flows shape and change the regional innovation patterns, which are also influenced by regional conditions. What are the similarities, differences and connections between science and technology linkage, as two different types of knowledge network, deserve to be explored in depth. Drawing on scientific paper co-publications and patent transfer data, we constructed two different types of intercity innovation networks during 2006–2016 in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), a city region special for its ‘one country, two systems’ structure. After that, we explored the evolutionary characteristics of the networks and further examined the different impacts of multidimensional proximity on scientific collaboration and technology transfer. Our results show that technology transfer is more sensitive to spatial factors, institutional barriers caused by ‘one country, two systems’ is a bigger obstacle to technology transfer between cities, cultural proximity and cognitive proximity have a more significant impact on paper cooperation network. Moreover, geographical proximity can indirectly affect knowledge spillover by acting on the proximity of other dimensions. As for scientific collaboration, social, cognitive and institutional proximities can compensate for the lack of geographical proximity, and cultural proximity frequently goes along with geographical proximity; as for technology transfer, geographical proximity has neither substitutional or complementarity relations with cultural and cognitive proximities, the interrelatedness between geographical and institutional and social proximities are complementarity which is opposed to paper co-publications. This study explores the differences in spillover mechanisms of different knowledge types and contributes to enriching the empirical framework of multidimensional proximities and innovation network researches.

摘要

各种知识流动塑造和改变了区域创新格局，而区域创新格局也受到区域条件的影响。科技联动作为两种不同类型的知识网络，有何异同和联系，值得深入探讨。我们利用科技论文合作发表和专利转让数据，在粤港澳大湾区这个“一国两制”的城市区域，于2006-2016年构建了两种不同类型的城际创新网络。两个系统的结构。之后，我们探讨了网络的演化特征，并进一步研究了多维邻近性对科学合作和技术转让的不同影响。我们的研究结果表明，技术转移对空间因素更加敏感，“一国两制”造成的制度障碍是城市间技术转移的较大障碍，文化邻近性和认知邻近性对论文合作网络影响更为显着。此外，地理邻近性可以通过作用于其他维度的邻近性来间接影响知识溢出。至于科学合作，社会、认知和制度上的接近可以弥补地理上接近的不足，而文化上的接近往往伴随着地理上的接近；就技术转让而言，地理上的邻近性与文化上和认知上的邻近性不存在替代或互补关系，地理上的邻近性与制度上和社会上的邻近性之间的相互关系是互补性的，与纸质联合出版物相反。