地方政府间经济合作到创新合作:自我升级与上级驱动

From Economic Cooperation to Innovative Cooperation:Self-Upgrading and Superior Authority

本文旨在解释如何理解从经济合作到创新合作这一近年来在我国区域一体化中新兴的现象。借助协议数据,以长三角经济区为案例,本文通过QAP方法进行了模型的验证。研究发现,城市政府的自我升级和省政府的上级驱动共同推动了经济合作到创新合作的变迁。具体而言,无论上级政府是否介入,既有的经济合作对于新的创新合作都有着显著的正面影响;而地方政府之间,同性"相吸"和"相斥"共生的现象则反映了自我升级当中的"强强联手"和"向外扩散"这两种基本合作模式;最后上级政府的权威规划则更多反映出了合法性逻辑,而非效率逻辑。本文还指出,创新合作仅仅被视作经济合作的简单升级是存在危险的,政策工具的单一性、上级政府的合法性逻辑以及上级压力下的特殊信任机制等都制约着创新一体化。尽管区域一体化是当今的主流趋势之一,但府际合作不可能也不应该是解决诸多公共问题的"万能药方"。

Economic cooperation and innovative cooperation are both new phenomena in China’s regional integration.The purpose of this article is to explain how and why cooperation issues have changed from economic cooperation to innovative cooperation.Based on interlocal agreements,this article uses QAP to explain the case of the Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone.This research presents three important results.First,economic cooperation has a significant and positive effect on innovative cooperation.Second,homogeneity among different governments does not always have a negative effect on their cooperation.In fact,it can sometimes be positive,which is a reflection of the two basic cooperation models in the process of self-upgrading:the first is win-win cooperation,and the second is innovative diffusion.Finally,the authoritative planning of the higher-level government reflects the logic of legitimacy rather than the logic of efficiency.This article also reminds that we cannot regard innovative cooperation merely as a simple upgrading of economic cooperation.Because the process of innovation is more complicated,it is insufficient to rely only on the former policy instruments.In particular,the logic of legitimacy from the superior authority will reduce cooperative efficiency.Although regional integration is becoming more important,intergovernmental cooperation cannot be a panacea for all public issues.