主讲人：姚力助理教授
时间：2020-06-11 2020年6月11日（周四）14:00-15:00
地点：综合楼526
摘要：
Inter-city R&D collaborations need a high level face-to-face interactions between innovative actors. The high speed rail (HSR) network lowers travel costs and hence the costs of face-to-face inter-personal interaction between cities. This paper exploits the Chinese HSR construction as a quasi-natural experiment to identify how faster-speed connections between cities increase the inter-city R&D collaborations. Using a comprehensive collection co-patents from 2003 to 2018, we document that HSR connection increases inter-city R&D collaborations by 25.3% for city-pairs within 250km, and 12.8% within 600km. The HSR connections generate higher quality innovations and more R&D collaboration partnerships. In addition, we uncover that institutional proximity plays a moderating role, in that HSR connections increase more co-patents and partnerships for city-pairs that are within the same province. Co-patents involving university and research institutes (URI) are more constrained by institutional distance and less by geographical distance than those involving firms only (II). The HSR effect is the strongest between major-small city pairs. Last, we conduct robustness check to reaffirm our results.
主讲人简介：
姚力，浙江嘉兴人，毕业于美国科罗拉多大学，获经济学博士学位，现为浙江工商大学国际商学院教室。主要研究方向为创新管理、地理经济学、城市研究等。已在Habitat International等期刊发表了论文。