Journal: Modern Economics & Management Forum DOI: 10.32629/memf.v7i3.5389
Abstract
Based on the panel data of 16 prefecture-level cities and 42 universities in Anhui Province from 2014 to 2023, this paper employs benchmark regression, mediation effect, spatial heterogeneity and β-convergence models to empirically examine the driving effect, transmission paths, regional disparities and convergence characteristics of entrepreneurship education in universities on regional economic growth. The results indicate that university entrepreneurship education exerts a significant positive pulling effect on regional economic growth. Technological innovation and employment serve as the core mediating transmission channels. The driving effect presents obvious spatial stratification: Central Anhui boasts the strongest marginal driving effect, followed by Southern Anhui, while Northern Anhui ranks the lowest. Undergraduate universities and central cities achieve more prominent empowering effects. Regional economic growth within the province shows a spatial convergence trend, and entrepreneurship education can accelerate the speed of regional convergence.
Keywords
higher education entrepreneurship education; regional economic growth; mediation effect; spatial heterogeneity; convergence
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