Spatio-temporal evolution and mechanism of regional innovation efficiency: Evidence from Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration of China

• Xianzhong Cao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Modern Chinese City Studies, Institute of Urban Development, School of Urban & Regional Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6942-3800

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• Bo Chen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Modern Chinese City Studies, Institute of Urban Development, School of Urban & Regional Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

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• Yuefang Si ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yfsi@re.ecnu.edu.cn

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Center for Modern Chinese City Studies, Institute of Urban Development, School of Urban & Regional Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

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• Senlin Hu,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Modern Chinese City Studies, Institute of Urban Development, School of Urban & Regional Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

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• Gang Zeng

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Modern Chinese City Studies, Institute of Urban Development, School of Urban & Regional Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

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