The Influence of Technological Innovation on Urbanization Quality: A Case Study of Chinese Innovative Cities

摘要

Technological innovation, as the primary productive forces, plays an important role in the urbanization process. We attempted to explore the relation between technological innovation and urbanization quality so as to find how to expedite urbanization process through technological innovation. In this paper, we used innovative city as our research object and created technology innovative evaluation system. Combined with cluster analysis, samples were divided into three classes for comparison purpose. To investigate the mechanism of technological innovation's effect, we constructed two regression models. Our results demonstrate technological innovation has significant positive correlation to the improvement of urbanization quality. Among all the factors, STF, R&D and TMT are the three major factors to influence the urbanization quality. The new and original in this paper is using two models to analyze the influence of technological innovation on urbanization quality.