Data-Driven Evaluation and Recommendations for Regional Synergy Innovation Capability

Abstract

Regional synergy innovation capability is an important driving force in promoting the sustainable and high-quality development of the regional economy. Taking the regional innovation development panel data of the Yangtze River Delta integration region from 2010 to 2019 as a sample, this study constructs an evaluation index system of regional synergy innovation capability, weights the index using the entropy weight method, and measures the capability of the Yangtze River Delta integration region (three provinces and one city) using the composite system synergy degree model. The empirical results show that the synergy of regional synergy innovation in the Yangtze River Delta integration has increased steadily, but there is still much room for improvement. Anhui has great potential for synergy innovation with Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai. Therefore, this study proposes countermeasures and suggestions for the high-quality development of Anhui’s synergy innovation capability under the integration of the Yangtze River Delta. This study provides theoretical and methodological support for enhancing regional synergy innovation capability and provides decision support for the sustainable and high-quality development of the regional economy.

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“…The collected survey material was subjected to a reliability (internal consistency) analysis of the indicators calculated from each group of questions based on Cronbach's α coefficient (this method is used in similar studies, including, among others, Zheng, Hu, and Yang [51] and Zhu, Liu, Lin, and Liang [52]). Due to the ordinal nature of the responses to the questions, Cronbach's α coefficient was calculated based on polychoric correlation coefficients [53,54].…”