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Arid Land Geography ›› 2025, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (9): 1636-1647.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2024.737

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Impact mechanism of innovative agglomeration spatial distribution patterns on urban economic resilience in China

ZHANG Shaohua(), GUAN Hailing   

  1. School of Economics and Management, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan 030024, Shanxi, China
  • Received:2024-12-08 Revised:2025-02-14 Online:2025-09-25 Published:2025-09-17

Abstract:

Improving economic resilience is an important part of achieving high-quality development. This paper empirically explores the influence of spatial distribution mode of provincial innovation agglomeration on urban economic resilience using the panel data of 275 cities in China from 2004 to 2021. The conclusions are as follows: (1) The monocentric pattern of innovative agglomeration inhibits the urban economy resilience, while the polycentric pattern promotes the urban economy resilience, and with the increase of the degree of multi-center, its effect on improving the urban economy resilience is enhanced. (2) Compared with cities with strong economic resilience, the polycentric pattern of innovation agglomeration has a more prominent empowerment effect on cities with weak economic resilience. (3) The polycentric pattern of innovation agglomeration has the strongest effect on improving the urban economic resilience in the eastern region of China, followed by the central region, while the effect on improving the urban economic resilience in the western region is not significant. (4) The mechanism identification test shows that the polycentric pattern of innovation agglomeration can enhance the resilience of urban economy through independent intermediary channels to promote the flow of innovation factors and improve the return on capital, and chain intermediary channels of “innovation factors flow-improve the return on capital”. The research conclusion provides beneficial practical enlightenment for optimizing the spatial distribution structure of innovation to enhance the urban economic resilience.

Key words: innovation agglomeration, spatial distribution mode, monocentricity, polycentricity, economic resilience