主题：Attracting Stars, Enhancing Ventures: Local Talent Policies and Entrepreneurship Quality
主讲人：周斯凡 中国科学技术大学
主持人：蒋璇 暨南大学
时间：2025年11月6日（周四）上午10:30-12:00
地点：暨南大学石牌校区经济学院大楼（中惠楼）305室
摘要
While human capital has long been recognized as a critical input to entrepreneurship, the relationship between the availability of highly skilled individuals and entrepreneurship quality, as opposed to the sheer number of new startups, remains understudied. In this paper, we provide causal evidence that increasing the supply of elite talent enhances entrepreneurship quality and document the channels through which this occurs. Exploiting the staggered introduction of local talent policies across Chinese cities as a quasi-natural experiment, we apply a difference-in-differences framework to rich administrative data. We find that these policies—designed to attract and support individuals with demonstrated achievements, particularly in science and engineering—increase aggregate entrepreneurship quality by 9% without significantly affecting the startup formation rate. The realized number of high-growth startups increases by 14.7%, and the number of patent-active startups increases by 6.4%. Robust event-study analyses reveal that policy impacts grow steadily over time. Using patent data to track inventor mobility, we further show that these policies successfully attract top-tier talent both domestically and from abroad. This inflow of talent benefits local industries that align with their technical expertise, reorients entrepreneurial activities from low-tech to high-tech sectors, and increases university patenting and university-industry collaborations, which in turn generate knowledge transfers and spillovers that enhance local entrepreneurship quality. Overall, our findings suggest that strengthening the local pool of elite human capital effectively enhances entrepreneurship quality.
主讲人简介
周斯凡，中国科学技术大学管理学院副教授。经济学博士（美国纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼分校），曾在哈佛大学数学科学与应用中心（CMSA）从事博士后研究工作，曾任厦门大学经济学院副教授。研究方向包括科技创新创业、知识传播、科技政策与高技能人才市场等。主持国家自然科学基金青年项目和教育部人文社科研究青年项目，研究成果发表于 Management Science、Research Policy、Regional Science and Urban Economics 等国际学术期刊。
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校对|蒋璇
责编| 彭毅
初审| 李仲达
终审发布| 何凌云
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