The Impact Of City Size On The Innovation Division

With continuously increasing urbanization process and gathering of urban population, there is more research about urbanization which is not only connected to the Chinese economic growth but also closely related to the China’s technological innovation. Currently, there is relatively rare research on China’s urbanization and innovation division with focus on technological innovation aspect. To reduce the research limitation, this paper, through analyzing the influence of city size on technological innovation, divides the technology innovation output into basic research and applied research with urban population, R&D expenditure, R&D personnel and three patents kinds of patent for invention, patent for utility models and design patent as research objects empirical research and case analysis to further study the impact of city size on division of innovation.This paper takes city size and innovation division as research objects. Firstly, through reviewing the literature and related theoretical studies at home and abroad, this part discusses China’s urbanization problem and Schumpeter’s technological innovation theory respectively and achieves some related theoretical foundation for urbanization and technological innovation. In addition, on the basis of technological innovation, this part further discusses the relevance of division of innovation with city size. Secondly, form population size and administrative level from two aspects analyzes the present situation of Chinese city scale and the division of innovation, through studies on relevance of administrative rank of Chinese cities with division of innovation and case study of typical cities in Yangtze River Delta region, this part makes an analysis on the proportion of basic research and applied research in cities with various sizes and gets the results of the higher proportion of basic research in larger size of cities while larger proportion of applied research in smaller size of cities. Thirdly, this part makes some improvement on the basis of the classical input-output model and constructs new model. Additionally, this part makes some related conclusions through an empirical study on urban population in China’s cities above the prefecture level, R&D expenditure and R&D personnel and numbers of various patents application. This study finds that urban population has an obvious influence on division of innovation and the increasing urban population leaves far larger promotion to basic research than to applied research. The input of R&D expenditure and R&D personnel promotes comprehensively the technological innovation but leaves an unobvious influence on division of innovation. This indicates that urban population is the main cause which affects the division of innovation while R&D expenditure and R&D personnel is the major factor in influencing technological innovation. At last, through analyzing and observing results of case analysis and empirical study, this part provides some related political suggestions about how to promote our technological innovation and division of innovation through combining basic principles of China’s urbanization path from two aspects of influences of city size on technological innovation and division of innovation.