Intergovernmental Cooperation In Regional Innovation Integration: A Comparative Study Between Jing-Jin-Ji Region And Pearl River Delta Region In China

From economic integration to innovation integration, is a new phenomenon in China's regional cooperation. There are two models to build regional innovation integration in intergovernmental Cooperation. Jing-Jin-Ji Region represents the first group of practices, which is a classic "top-down" model and Pearl River Delta Region represents the other group of practices, which is a typically "bottom-up" model. In this paper, a quantitative research is taken by interlocal agreements (ILAs). Based on the institutional collective action framework and agreements network analysis, the measurement results are as following: First of all, Jing-Jin-Ji Region is a classic network lead organization (NLO), which have moderate density, and relied on high level government. And Pearl River Delta Region is classic shared governance (SG), which has high density. Although the higher-level government still plays an important role, the cooperation main bodies are more equal and the governments in the network have higher goal consensus. According to agreements structure we find that the main difference between Jing-Jin-Ji Region and Pearl River Delta Region is that the Pearl River Delta has higher flexibility, but the both of them at a low level of complexity, expansiveness and autonomy. Therefore, this paper points out that in practice, the superior authority play an important role in the innovation integration, but the cooperation by same level and the driven force from the market is irreplaceable.