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

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  • Wang, Jiating
  • Cai, Siyuan

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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.

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  • Wang, Jiating & Cai, Siyuan, 2020. "The construction of high-speed railway and urban innovation capacity: Based on the perspective of knowledge Spillover," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 63(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:chieco:v:63:y:2020:i:c:s1043951x2030136x
    DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2020.101539
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