Journal of East China Normal University(Educational Sciences) ›› 2024, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (6): 61-74.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2024.06.006

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Spatial Agglomeration of Megalopolis and Spillover Effect of Regional Higher Education in China

Junfeng Ma1, Yuhui Li2   

  1. 1. School of Teacher Education, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350007, China
    2. Wenzhou University of Technology, Wenzhou, 325035, China
  • Online:2024-06-01 Published:2024-04-25

Abstract:

The coordinated development of megalopolis will reshape the allocation pattern of higher education resources, drive regional development from agglomeration to equilibrium, and realize the transformation of high-quality development of China’s economy. Based on the panel data of 193 cities in the urban agglomeration from 2006 to 2020, from the perspective of spatial agglomeration, this paper used the spatial Dubin model with economic distance and population density weight matrix to characterize and measure the spatial spillover effect of higher education agglomeration on regional scientific and technological innovation level and economic development. The research found that, megalopolis with similar economy and population in urban agglomeration have the same demand for higher education development, it will make those cities form spatial agglomeration, and the resulting spatial spillover effect will drive the improvement of the level of regional scientific and technological innovation and the degree of economic transformation and upgrading, so as to achieve balanced regional development. In the future, we should break the original pattern of regional development based on administrative allocation of resources, and explore the institutional innovation and path selection of regional higher education development in the process of spatial pattern evolution of urban agglomeration.

Key words: megalopolis, regional higher education, agglomeration economy, spatial externality, spillover effect