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Research on the impact of technological innovation on regional coordinated development from the perspectives of skill-directed effect and innovation diffusion effect
Yang Xiaozhang, Zhong Shihu, Tan Wenxin
Science Research Management ›› 2026, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (5) : 115-125.
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Research on the impact of technological innovation on regional coordinated development from the perspectives of skill-directed effect and innovation diffusion effect
Technological innovation as a key driver of high-value economic development has been a major concern of governments, academia and industries alike. However, the non-neutral nature of technology can lead to regional development imbalances. Therefore, how to promote technological development while alleviating its distributional imbalance is an important issue that urgently needs to be studied. Based on this, this paper used the data of Chinese prefecture-level cities from 2000 to 2019 to investigate the existence of the non-neutral character of technology, and innovatively examined the intrinsic mechanism of technological innovation affecting regional coordinated development from the dimensions of skill-directed effect and innovation diffusion effect. The study found that: First, technological innovation has significant non-neutral characteristics and widens the regional income gap, which is still valid after using the instrumental variable method to alleviate the endogeneity problem and employing a robustness tests; Second, the skill-directed effect makes high-skilled workers benefit more from technological innovation, which tends to cluster more in developed regions, thus leading to widening of regional income gaps; Finally, the innovation diffusion effect through technological spillovers promotes the productivity improvement of late-developed regions through technological spillovers, which forms a compensatory mechanism for regional income gaps. In summary, this study has revealed the skill-directed and innovation diffusion effects of technological innovation on regional income disparities, and it will provide empirical evidence that technology diffusion helps to alleviate regional imbalances, thus providing new insights on how to resolve the conflict between the innovation-driven goals and the coordinated regional development.
technological innovation / regional income gap / skill-directed effect / innovation diffusion effect
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