The impact of entrepreneurship on regional economic growth: a perspective of spatial heterogeneity

Bing Xu, Haijing Yu and Lili Li

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2021, vol. 33, issue 3-4, 309-331

Abstract: The relationship between entrepreneurship and regional economic growth has always been a hot topic for scholars. However, the conclusions of existing studies mostly believe that the spatial variable relationship between the two is a fixed positive relationship and does not change with the change of spatial position, which is obviously contrary to the law of heterogeneity or non-stationarity in the spatial relationship of the real geographic world. This paper proposes a new spatial variable coefficient model, called Mixed Geographically Weighted Panel Regression with Spatial Autoregression (MGWPR-SAR), to study the spatial heterogeneity of the impact of entrepreneurship on the economic growth of 31 provinces and cities in China. Unlike the conclusions of mainstream research, the results of this paper show that the role of entrepreneurship in China’s regional economic growth is not necessarily positive, and it has significant spatial heterogeneity. Entrepreneurship has a positive role in promoting economic growth in the relatively developed regions of the eastern coastal and central regions, while it has a negative effect on economic growth in the relatively backward regions of the west.

Date: 2021
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