The construction of high-speed railway and urban innovation capacity: Based on the perspective of knowledge Spillover

By Jiating Wang, Siyu Cai. 2020

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Abstract This paper investigates how transportation infrastructure projects facilitate research collaboration across cities and promote innovation. Exploiting the construction of high-speed rail (HSR) network as a plausibly exogenous shock, we find that innovation in less-developed cities significantly and quantitatively improves after the cities are connected to more developed cities through the HSR network. Of all mechanisms considered, incremental research collaboration can explain 2% to 12% of the innovation improvement. The empirical results imply that even under the “promotion tournament model “ of spatial competition structure, cities can still mutually benefit through research collaboration.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Transportation

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Jiancheng Li
2. Douglas Hanley
3. Mingqin Wu

In Transportation

1. Jiancheng Li
2. Douglas Hanley
3. Mingqin Wu

Citations in the corpus

• High-speed railways and collaborative innovation (2021, methodology): “In addition, face-to-face communication is still playing key role in innovation collaboration, even in the age of internet (Wang and Cai, 2020).”