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14-03-2022 | Special Issue Paper

Entrepreneurship in China’s peripheral regions

Authors: Fenjie Long, Longfei Zheng, Haifeng Qian

Published in: The Annals of Regional Science | Issue 1/2023

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Abstract

Entrepreneurship has risen to a national development strategy to drive China’s economic transition. Previous regional studies of Chinese entrepreneurship have focused mostly on metropolitan areas or cities. This research contributes to the literature by understanding entrepreneurship in Chinese peripheral regions and meanwhile considering sectoral variations. Based on records of 9.26 million newly registered enterprises, we present the spatial–temporal dynamics of startup activities in China’s peripheral counties from 2004 to 2016. We further conduct panel regressions to explore the geographically bounded influencing factors of total and sectoral entrepreneurship in these peripheral regions. We provide evidence on the positive impacts of macro-economic conditions, industry specialization, county size, and patent knowledge on general entrepreneurship. These findings to some extent vary by sector. We also find positive spillover effects from the nearby large metropolitan center on peripheral entrepreneurship. These findings shed light on the characteristics of sectoral entrepreneurial ecosystems and entrepreneurship policy in peripheral regions.

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Footnotes
1
Authors’ own calculation based on data from China Statistical Yearbooks (County-level) and China City Statistical Yearbooks.
 
2
Calculated by authors based on data from China Statistical Yearbook (County-Level) and China City Statistical Yearbook from 2004 to 2016.
 
3
The geo-coded administrative boundary came from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (http://​www.​resdc.​cn).
 
4
High correlations among explanatory variables may cause multicollinearity. We conduct variance inflation factor (VIF) tests for each pooled OLS regressions. The highest VIF value is 6.14, which is less than the suggested threshold of 10 in the literature (Alin 2010; Nerlove 1963). This indicates that there is no serious multicollinearity in these regressions.
 
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Metadata
Title
Entrepreneurship in China’s peripheral regions
Authors
Fenjie Long
Longfei Zheng
Haifeng Qian
Publication date
14-03-2022
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
The Annals of Regional Science / Issue 1/2023
Print ISSN: 0570-1864
Electronic ISSN: 1432-0592
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-022-01122-0