Multiscale assessment of the coupling coordination between innovation and economic development in resource-based cities: A case study of Northeast China

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128597
• Publication Date: 2021-08-09T17:01:56Z
• Authors: Yang Chen; Danning Zhang
• Keywords: 11. Sustainability; 8. Economic growth; 0502 economics and business; 05 social sciences

Abstract The coordinated advancement of innovation and economic development is an inevitable problem for urban areas in China, among which resource-based cities confront more complex difficulties because of the continuous depletion of natural resources. However, little work has been done to measure the coupling coordination between innovation capability (IC) and economic development (ED) in resource-based cities. This study, therefore, calculated the coupling coordination degree (CCD) between IC and ED of resource-based cities in Northeast China from different regions with different resource types at different development stages. Moreover, the geographical detector further was employed to distinguish the influencing factors of CCD. The empirical results show that from 2013 to 2018, the coordinated development between ED and IC performed poorly in northeastern resource-based cities and experienced an obvious decoupling phenomenon. For the different regions, different resource types, and different development stages, the difference in CCD performance was significant among the northeastern resource-based cities. By comparing the influencing factors, the spatial heterogeneity of each indicator varied greatly, and the indicators of IC collectively had a stronger power determinant than ED in stimulating coordinated development.