Intra-Provincial Buzz vs. Inter-Provincial Pipeline: Unveiling the Effects of Different Innovation Cooperation Patterns on Urban Economic Resilience in China

In the context of open innovation, innovation cooperation has become an important path to strengthen the resilience of urban economics. This study aims to explore how different innovation cooperation patterns impact urban economic resilience by utilizing panel data from 280 Chinese cities from 2010 to 2020. The results show that intra-provincial buzz has a nonlinear relationship with economic resilience, while the inter-provincial pipeline consistently enhances that resilience. Furthermore, intra-provincial buzz primarily promotes economic resilience by improving the technology agglomeration level, while the inter-provincial pipeline achieves the same by fostering innovation and entrepreneurship vitality. Further analysis reveals heterogeneous effects across geographic locations, city sizes, and levels of industrial diversification. These findings highlight the complex impacts of two innovation cooperation patterns on urban economic resilience, underscoring the requirement for strategies tailored to specific situations depending on geographic and economic contexts.