演化经济地理视角下的经济复杂度与区域经济发展研究进展

经济复杂度是近年来演化经济地理学的重要议题之一,其关注产业结构转型和内生增长路径,有助于理解区域经济结构转型过程,对经济地理学、发展经济学等理论深化具有重要作用。论文介绍了经济复杂度的理论背景,梳理了演化经济地理视角下经济复杂度的内涵、概念及理论框架,在此基础上回顾了经济复杂度的主流测度方法,并基于产业多样化与产品空间理论探究了经济复杂度与区域经济发展的作用机制,进而回顾了经济复杂度对区域经济增长、区域收入差异和创新等方面的实证研究进展,发现绝大多数文献证明了经济复杂度对区域经济发展的积极作用。区域可以从提升产品空间密度的思路出发,通过提升产业生产和创新能力促进区域经济复杂度提升。中国经济复杂度高于相同收入水平的其他国家,发展路径具有一定特殊性,这为经济复杂度理论研究提供了案例,且在实践中具有较强的政策含义。

Progress of research on economic complexity and regional economic development in the perspective of evolutionary economic geography

Economic complexity is one of the important topics in evolutionary economic geography in recent years. Its attention to the transformation of industrial structure and the path of endogenous growth plays an important role in deepening the theories of economic geography and development economics, and helps to understand the transformation process of regional economic structure. This article reviewed the theoretical background of economic complexity, and examined the connotation, concept, and theoretical framework of economic complexity from the perspective of evolutionary economic geography. Then it reviewed the mainstream measurement methods of economic complexity. Based on the theory of diversification and product space, this article explored the mechanism of economic complexity on regional economic development, and then reviewed the progress of empirical research of economic complexity on regional economic growth, regional income disparity, and innovation. We found that most of the literature has proved the positive effect of economic complexity on regional economic development. Based on the idea of improving the product space density, regional economic complexity can be promoted by improving the industrial capacity and innovation ability. China's economic complexity is higher than that of other countries at the same income level, and its development path has unique characteristics, which provides a case for the theoretical study of economic complexity and has strong policy implications.