In this study, BGI was developed to analyze the growth of innovative citiesfrom various perspectives and applied to 10 innovative cities and the metropolitan area,respectively. Through this, the purpose of the construction of an innovative city, wheth...
In this study, BGI was developed to analyze the growth of innovative citiesfrom various perspectives and applied to 10 innovative cities and the metropolitan area,respectively. Through this, the purpose of the construction of an innovative city, whethernational balanced development and shared growth, was presented through empiricalanalysis. The distinctiveness of this study is that first, the Balanced Growth Index wasdeveloped and applied based on a comprehensive index for the impact on theconstruction performance of innovative cities. Second, the indicators before and after theconstruction of the innovative city were presented as BGI. Finally, by presenting the BGIof the metropolitan area at the same time, a comparative analysis was performed onwhether national balanced development and shared growth occurred. The growth ratebefore and after the construction of the entire innovative city was 0.1479, which waslower than 0.2713 in the metropolitan area. However, considering the growth ofinnovative cities, it is possible to judge that the innovation city construction policyplayed a role in delaying the growth rate and reducing the size of growth in themetropolitan area. On the other hand, all 10 individual innovative cities had higher BGIvalues after construction compared to before construction. Therefore, it can be said thatthe innovative city construction policy had a positive effect on the balanced nationaldevelopment.