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Academic Journal of Business & Management, 2025, 7(1); doi: 10.25236/AJBM.2025.070103.

Research on the Coupling and Coordination of Higher Education and Regional Economic Development—Taking Five Northwestern Provinces as an Example

Author(s)

Yangchen Sun, Qin Ma

Corresponding Author:
Yangchen Sun
Affiliation(s)

Business School, Xi’an International Studies University, Xi’an, Shaanxi,China

Abstract

Based on the panel data of five northwestern provinces from 2014 to 2023, the article explores the degree of coupling coordination and spatial agglomeration of the two systems of higher education and regional economy using the coupling coordination degree model and the global Moran index. From the time dimension, the coupling and coordination degree of higher education and regional economy in the five northwestern provinces shows an increasing trend year by year, but there is a significant difference in the growth rate of each province; from the spatial dimension, there is an insignificant spatial clustering effect between the coupling and coordination degree of the five northwestern provinces, and the Moran index shows a fluctuating upward trend, which suggests that although there is a spatial heterogeneity between the five provinces, the spatial links between them are also gradually strengthened.

Keywords

Higher education, Regional economy, Coupling coordination,Moran index, Five provinces in Northwest China

Cite This Paper

Yangchen Sun, Qin Ma. Research on the Coupling and Coordination of Higher Education and Regional Economic Development—Taking Five Northwestern Provinces as an Example. Academic Journal of Business & Management (2025) Vol. 7, Issue 1: 22-29. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2025.070103.

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