目前, 中国经济已经步入新常态, 经济增长速度转变为由中高速增长。但是经济在高速发展下出现了很多经济社会问题, 人口老龄化, 环境污染等。改变以往传统的粗放型增长方式转为依靠创新作为中国经济发展的核心战略, 已成为中国新常态下经济发展的必要措施。创新不仅是决定区域竞争力的因素之一, 也是区域经济发展的引擎, 在打破中等收入国家的陷阱方面发挥着重要作用。结合中国现阶段经济发展的特点, 应该尽快实现创新要素与创新驱动转变的新变革, 促使中国实现长期经济可持续发展。因此, 有必要分析两者的耦合协调发展现状, 并研究分析两者之间的关系, 对区域经济发展具有重要的参考意义。根据前人研究的基础上, 本文从创新投入, 创新产出和创新环境三个角度构建了区域创新能力评价体系。从经济稳定性, 经济效率性, 经济协调性, 经济开放性, 经济共享性和经济绿色性六个维度构建了经济发展评价体系, 在此基础上, 运用耦合协调度模型, 从2006, 2010, 2015, 2020年的四个时间点, 分析了中国30个省市自治区的区域创新能力与区域经济发展的耦合协调发展状况。其结果表明, 从区域创新能力与区域经济发展的综合得分来看, 中国大部分省市自治区的区域创新能力与区域经济发展水平都低于平均水平。中国整体耦合协调度处于中度协调, 距离高度协调阶段还有较大差距。处于高度协调和极度协调的省份数量不多, 但都分布在东部经济发达地区。处于中度协调和低度协调的绝大部分省市自治区都处于创新能力滞后型。四大区域的耦合协调度呈现出东部地区>中部地区>东北地区>西部地区的特征。
At present, China’s economy has entered a new normal, with the economic growth rate changing from medium to high speed growth. However, many economic and social problems have emerged as a result of this rapid development, such as the ageing of the population and environmental pollution. Changing the traditional sloppy growth approach to one that relies on innovation as the core strategy for China’s economic development has become a necessary measure for China’s economic development under the new normal. Innovation is not only one of the factors determining regional competitiveness, it is also an engine of economic development and plays an important role in breaking the trap of middle-income countries. Combined with the characteristics of China’s current stage of economic development, new changes in innovation factors and innovation-driven transformation should be realized as soon as possible, leading China to achieve long-term sustainable economic development. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the current situation of the coupled and coordinated development of the two and to study and analyze the relationship between them, which has important reference significance for regional economic development. Based on previous research, this paper constructs a regional innovation capacity evaluation system from three perspectives: innovation input, innovation output and innovation environment. The regional economic development evaluation system has been constructed in six dimensions: economic stability, economic efficiency, economic coordination, economic openness, economic sharing, and economic greenness. On this basis, the coupled and coordinated development of regional innovation capacity and regional economic development in 30 provinces, cities, and autonomous regions of China were analyzed from four-time points, 2006, 2010, 2015, and 2020, using the coupled and coordinated degree model. The results show that the quadrant of the composite score of regional innovation capacity and regional economic development shows that most provinces, cities, and autonomous regions in China are below the average level of regional innovation capacity and regional economic development. China’s overall coupling coordination is at a moderate level of coordination and is still far from the high coordination stage. The number of provinces at high and very high levels of coordination is small, but they are all located in the economically developed eastern regions. The vast majority of provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions in the medium and low levels of coordination are in the lagging innovation capacity category. The coupling coordination of the four regions shows a characteristic of Eastern regions> Central regions> Northeast regions> Western regions.