The effects of skyscraper development on surrounding firms' innovation in China is assessed in this paper, and empirical results show that skyscraper development significantly promotes the innovation of firms within 1 ​km of skyscrapers. However, such effect only exists around very tall...

This paper provides empirical evidence on the role of university spatial expansion in local innovation activities in the context of new campus construction in China. By treating the spatial expansion of the university as a quasi-experiment, we construct a unique geocoded dataset linking...