关键词: 众创空间, 空间格局, 影响因素, 长三角地区

Abstract:

As a new type of innovation and entrepreneurship hatching platform, the Mass Makerspace has become an important way to implement China’s the innovation-driven development strategy. Among all the regions, the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) is one of the main agglomeration areas of national Mass Makerspace, which has a profound impact on China’s innovation promotion. This paper applies Nearest Neighbor Analysis and Kernel Density Estimation methods to illustrate the historical development and geographical patterns of national Mass Makerspace in the YRD, based on the list of national Mass Makerspaces identified by the Torch Center of Ministry of Science and Technology of China, and other related official statistics as supplementary data sources; meanwhile, we also use Geographical Detector Method to explore the locational factors which influence the spatial patterns of the national Mass Makerspace. Based on the above-mentioned work, we reach four conclusions. Firstly, the geographical distribution of the national Mass Makerspace in the YRD has undergone rapid changes including three development stages: the first stage (before December 2nd 2015) has the agglomeration rate of 0.54; the second stage (from December 2nd 2015 to February 2016) has the agglomeration rate of 0.53; and the third stage (from February 2016 till now) has the agglomeration rate of 0.54. It shows an increasing agglomeration development trend. Secondly, the three development stages show different spatial patterns. In the first stage, three agglomerations of national Mass Makerspace are spotted, namely large Hangzhong core, and two small cores including Hefei and Suzhou. In the second stage, Shanghai replaced Hangzhou as the biggest agglomeration region. “Z” spatial pattern of Hefei-Nanjing-Suzhou-Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo has formed, with Shanghai and Hangzhou as two main cores, and Nanjing and Suzhou as two small cores centers. The third stage witnesses the growing the former small cores. Former small cores develop into larger cores, with Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing as three main cores, and Hefei, Suzhou-Wuxi and Ningbo as three small cores centers. Thirdly, we prove the diffusion effects of Shanghai into two directions: To west wing, including Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou and Yangzhou, and to south wing, from Jiaxing to Hangzhou. Fourthly, we find out that urban economic strength, social environment and innovation milieu have important influences on the spatial distribution of the national Mass Makerspace in the YRD. The most important factors are the stock of financial capital,openness ,urban economic scale,the degree of informatization and innovation vitality followed by three factors such as the city’s R&D investment,the accessibility of transportation,governmental support,the industrial structure,scientific research strength,diversity and the amount of entrepreneurial actors. In addition, the development of National High-tech Park has certain influence on the spatial development of the National Mass Makerspace in the YRD too, but much lower than other factors.

Key words: national Mass Makerspace, the spatial distribution, influencing factors, the Yangtze River Delta Region