Spatial dependence and heterogeneity in the location processes of new high‐tech firms in Nanjing,China |
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| Authors: | Yingcheng Li Kai Zhu |
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| Affiliation: | 1. The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, London, UK;2. College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China |
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| Abstract: | Drawing upon township‐level data on high‐tech firms of Nanjing, China, this paper adopts a spatial econometric approach to examining the existence of spatial dependence and heterogeneity in the location processes of high‐tech firms. The results show that some locational determinants of neighbouring townships exert significant impacts on the attractiveness of a certain township for high‐tech firms. Besides, the marginal effects of some locational determinants are found to vary across space. In general, these results point to the need to account for both inter‐territorial spillovers and cross‐spatial variance in the investigation of factors that influence high‐tech firm location. |
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| Keywords: | Spatial dependence spatial heterogeneity high‐tech firms Nanjing |
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