Innovation Facilitated by Universities: Balancing Enterprise and Regional Demands

Table 2

Selection and description of regional variables.

	Variable names	Variable descriptions
Explained variable		Per-capita number of patents (unit: ten thousand people per patent)
Explanatory variables	Gini	Gini Coefficient, indicating the score of the quality of a university
	Gini^2	The square of Gini Coefficient, indicating the score of the quality of a university
Control variables		per-capita yearly total internal expenditure for scientific and technological activities (unit: yuan per person)
		The number of the annual full-time personnel in research and experimental development (unit: year· people)
		Per-capita GDP (unit: 100 million yuan)
		Marketization degree index
		The average score of the composite scores of the quality of universities in a province (provincial-level municipality or autonomous region)