IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/envirc/v33y2015i6p1657-1678.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The engagement of higher education in regional development in China

Author

Listed:
  • Xuefeng Wang
  • Paul Vallance

Abstract

The widely established role of higher education institutions in contributing to regional development is now also encouraged by the Chinese government. This development has been enabled by changes in state policy that in some respects align with global trends towards expansion, marketisation, and regional decentralisation in national higher education systems. However, the regional engagement of higher education institutions in China takes distinctive forms that are shaped by specific features of its governance system, including the politicisation of higher education, the incorporation of higher education institutions into the administrative hierarchy, and the disequilibrium of funding schemes between central and provincial owned higher education institutions. This paper provides a preliminary analysis of this relationship between higher education and regional development in China. It argues that the policy to encourage regional engagement by higher education institutions in China has generally served to enhance patterns of regional inequality between the coastal and inland regions and between upper- and lower-administrative level cities.

Suggested Citation

  • Xuefeng Wang & Paul Vallance, 2015. "The engagement of higher education in regional development in China," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 33(6), pages 1657-1678, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:33:y:2015:i:6:p:1657-1678
    DOI: 10.1177/0263774X15614143
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0263774X15614143
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/0263774X15614143?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Breschi, Stefano & Lissoni, Francesco, 2001. "Knowledge Spillovers and Local Innovation Systems: A Critical Survey," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 10(4), pages 975-1005, December.
    2. C. Cindy Fan, 1997. "Uneven development and beyond: regional development theory in post‐Mao China," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 21(4), pages 620-639, December.
    3. Groen, Jeffrey A. & White, Michelle J., 2004. "In-state versus out-of-state students: the divergence of interest between public universities and state governments," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 88(9-10), pages 1793-1814, August.
    4. Roland Andersson & John M. Quigley & Mats Wilhelmson, 2004. "University decentralization as regional policy: the Swedish experiment," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 4(4), pages 371-388, August.
    5. Pedro Teixeira & Vera Rocha & Ricardo Biscaia & Margarida F. Cardoso, 2014. "Policy changes, marketisation trends and spatial dispersion in European higher education: comparing public and private sectors," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 7(2), pages 271-288.
    6. Paul Benneworth & Mikolaj Herbst, 2015. "The City as a Focus for Human Capital Migration: Towards a Dynamic Analysis of University Human Capital Contributions," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(3), pages 452-474, March.
    7. Daniel Schiller, 2006. "Nascent Innovation Systems in Developing Countries: University Responses to Regional Needs in Thailand," Industry and Innovation, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(4), pages 481-504.
    8. Cecile regstdpy & Jean-Alain Heraud & Beth Perry, 2007. "Multi-level Governance, Regions and Science in France: Between Competition and Equality," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(8), pages 1069-1084.
    9. Xiaobo Zhang & Kevin Zhang, 2003. "How Does Globalisation Affect Regional Inequality within A Developing Country? Evidence from China," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(4), pages 47-67.
    10. Anthony Hoare & Mark Corver, 2010. "The Regional Geography of New Young Graduate Labour in the UK," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 44(4), pages 477-494.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Rakas, Marija & Hain, Daniel S., 2019. "The state of innovation system research: What happens beneath the surface?," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(9), pages 1-1.
    2. Guangdong Li & Chuanglin Fang, 2014. "Analyzing the multi-mechanism of regional inequality in China," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 52(1), pages 155-182, January.
    3. Paolo Ghinetti & Simone Moriconi, 2013. "The Wage Return to Graduate in Italian Small-town Universities," SCIENZE REGIONALI, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2013(1), pages 39-53.
    4. John Winters, 2012. "Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers," IZA Journal of Migration and Development, Springer;Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 1(1), pages 1-17, December.
    5. Andrea Bonaccorsi & Massimo Colombo & Massimiliano Guerini & Cristina Rossi-Lamastra, 2014. "The impact of local and external university knowledge on the creation of knowledge-intensive firms: evidence from the Italian case," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 43(2), pages 261-287, August.
    6. Gerald A. Carlino, 2014. "New ideas in the air: cities and economic growth," Business Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, issue Q4, pages 1-7.
    7. Guo Chen & Amy K Glasmeier & Min Zhang & Yang Shao, 2016. "Urbanization and Income Inequality in Post-Reform China: A Causal Analysis Based on Time Series Data," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(7), pages 1-16, July.
    8. Wang, Liang & Tan, Justin & Li, Wan, 2018. "The impacts of spatial positioning on regional new venture creation and firm mortality over the industry life cycle," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 41-52.
    9. Safiullin, M.R. (Сафиуллин, М.Р.) & Abdukaeva, A.A. (Абдукаева, А.А.) & Yurkov, D.V. (Юрков, Д.В.), 2019. "A formalized evolution of the efficiency of regional higher education systems through the prism of the relationship of inputs and outputs of flow values [Формализованная оценка эффективности регион," Economy of science, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, vol. 5, pages 248-257, December.
    10. Andersson, Fredrik N.G. & Edgerton, David L. & Opper, Sonja, 2013. "A Matter of Time: Revisiting Growth Convergence in China," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 239-251.
    11. Fulong Wu, 2016. "China's Emergent City-Region Governance: A New Form of State Spatial Selectivity through State-orchestrated Rescaling," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 40(6), pages 1134-1151, November.
    12. Carlos Carreira & Luís Lopes, 2016. "Collecting new pieces to the regional knowledge spillovers puzzle: high-tech versus low-tech industries," GEMF Working Papers 2016-06, GEMF, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra.
    13. Tom Broekel & Matthias Brachert & Matthias Duschl & Thomas Brenner, 2015. "Joint R and D subsidies, related variety, and regional innovation," Working Papers on Innovation and Space 2015-01, Philipps University Marburg, Department of Geography.
    14. Matthias Firgo & Peter Mayerhofer, 2015. "Wissens-Spillovers und regionale Entwicklung - welche strukturpolitische Ausrichtung optimiert des Wachstum?," Working Paper Reihe der AK Wien - Materialien zu Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 144, Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien, Abteilung Wirtschaftswissenschaft und Statistik.
    15. Prasanna Tambe & Lorin M. Hitt, 2014. "Measuring Information Technology Spillovers," Information Systems Research, INFORMS, vol. 25(1), pages 53-71, March.
    16. Baltagi, Badi H. & Yen, Yin-Fang, 2014. "Hospital treatment rates and spillover effects: Does ownership matter?," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 49(C), pages 193-202.
    17. Paolo Seri, 2014. "The role of proximity in retrospective: organizations, ICT and human resources in Italian traditional districts? firms," Working Papers 1404, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Department of Economics, Society & Politics - Scientific Committee - L. Stefanini & G. Travaglini, revised 2014.
    18. Jing Li & Tsun Se Cheong & Jianfa Shen & Dahai Fu, 2019. "Urbanization And Rural–Urban Consumption Disparity: Evidence From China," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 64(04), pages 983-996, September.
    19. Andrea Morrison, 2005. "Inside the Black Box of ‘Industrial Atmosphere’: Knowledge and Information Networks in an Italian wine local system," Working Papers 97, SEMEQ Department - Faculty of Economics - University of Eastern Piedmont.
    20. Jung, Samuel Moon & Vijverberg, Chu-Ping C., 2019. "Financial development and income inequality in China – A spatial data analysis," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 48(C), pages 295-320.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:33:y:2015:i:6:p:1657-1678. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.