The Interplay of Innovative Urban Planning Approaches and Economic Upgrading in China: The Case of Guangzhou Mega-City

Evaluating economic efficiency of the national high-tech industrial development districts in the Yangtze River Delta by stochastic frontier analysis

“…Although some research argues that political intervention leads to a lack of innovation [ 21 ], the findings could prove that the Chinese government's S&T initiative is beneficial to the increase of technology sales efficiency. Our findings support the view held by many other researchers [ 17 , 19 , 25 ]. Second, this study extends the economic efficiency evaluation on the innovation clusters by considering the S&T policy initiatives.…”

“…The national HIDDs attracted a great number of transnational human capital, including foreign PhDs and domestic returnee scholars [ 18 ]. The case of Guangzhou HIDD reveals that the administrative upgrading would improve the industrial structures and urban economic competitiveness [ 19 ]. The case of Hefei HIDD shows that industrial policies are the most important external sources affecting the acquisition strategies of enterprises [ 20 ].…”