创新精神根植于中华民族千百年来勤劳智慧的实践，形成于兼收并蓄各种思想文化的有益成果之上。党的十六大明确提出“创新驱动发展战略”，这为创新型国家建设树立了长远目标、指明了发展方向。创新型城市建设是创新驱动发展战略的基本载体和着力点，也是创新体系建设的关键环节。为充分调动创新资源、有效减少了创新型城市治理的试错成本，中央政府基于实验主义治理理论采用了创新型城市试点政策，为构建完善的创新治理体系提供了思路。本研究从实验主义治理视角切入，对创新型城市试点政策的运行机制展开分析，既能丰富和完善创新治理理论，也能为不断探索出与本土情境相适应的创新城市治理方案、提高创新城市治理的科学性、精准性和有效性提供理论借鉴。

本研究主要分为“理论分析”和“实证分析”两大部分内容，一方面，通过对现有文献的耙梳，分析了实验主义治理和创新型城市的研究现状与局限，为研究寻找出发点和突破口；厘清了创新型城市、实验主义治理等相关概念，梳理了创新型试点城市的政策实验时空演化脉络，并从理论上构建了创新型城市实验主义治理运行机制的理论分析框架。另一方面，分别对创新型城市试点筛选机制和试点政策效果展开了实证分析，首先，以2006－2016年间创新型城市政策实验过程中的试点城市为研究对象，利用事件史模型对创新型城市试点选择的影响因素进行实证分析，研究发现：中央在筛选试点过程中，通常会考虑试点比例、基础条件（创新资源、地理位置、行政级别）、实验环境（制度环境、生态环境、创新文化）等因素。其次，基于2007-2014年282个城市的面板数据，运用双重差分模型检验了创新型城市试点政策对提升城市经济发展水平的作用，并探讨了其作用路径。研究结果发现，创新型城市试点政策能够显著提升城市经济水平，结论具有稳健性。通过异质性分析发现，创新型城市试点政策能显著提升一般城市的经济发展水平，但对重点城市作用不明显；对中西部地区的作用效果要优于对东部和东北部地区的作用效果。现阶段中国试点城市经济发展水平的提升通过提高劳动、资本等要素投入水平和城市创新水平共同实现，尤其是资本要素投入在促进创新型城市经济发展水平方面仍起到重要作用。

The spirit of innovation is rooted in the Chinese nation's practice of hard work and wisdom for thousands of years, and is formed on the basis of absorbing all kinds of ideological and cultural achievements. The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly put forward the "innovation driven development strategy", which set a long-term goal and pointed out the development direction for the construction of an innovative country. The construction of innovative city is not only the basic carrier and focus of innovation driven development strategy, but also the key link of innovation system construction. In order to fully mobilize innovative resources and effectively reduce the trial and error cost of innovative city governance, the central government has adopted the pilot policy of innovative city based on the experimental governance theory, which provides ideas for the construction of a perfect innovation governance system. From the perspective of experimental governance, this study analyzes the operation mechanism of innovative city pilot policies, which can not only enrich and improve the theory of innovative governance, but also provide theoretical reference for constantly exploring innovative urban governance schemes that adapt to the local situation and improving the scientificity, accuracy and effectiveness of innovative urban governance.

This study is mainly divided into two parts of "theoretical research" and "empirical analysis". On the one hand, by combing the existing literature, this paper analyzes the research status and limitations of experimental governance and innovative cities, and finds out the starting point and breakthrough for our research. Then the research clarifies the related concepts of innovative city and experimental governance, and sorts out the policy experiment of innovative pilot city. Finally, it constructs the operation mechanism of experimental governance of innovative cities theoretically. On the other hand, the research conducts an empirical analysis on the pilot selection mechanism and policy effect of innovative cities. Taking the pilot cities in the process of policy experiment of innovative cities from 2006 to 2016 as the research object, the research makes an empirical analysis on the influencing factors of the pilot selection of innovative cities by using the event history model. It is found that the central government usually considers the factors such as pilot proportion, basic conditions (innovative resources, geographical location, administrative level), experimental environment (institutional environment, ecological environment, innovative culture) in the process of pilot selection. In addition, based on the panel data of 282 cities from 2007 to 2014, this paper uses the difference in difference model to test the economic effect of innovative city pilot policy, and discusses its path of action. The results show that the pilot policy of innovative cities can significantly improve the level of urban economy, and the conclusion is robust. Through heterogeneity analysis, it is found that the pilot policy of innovative cities can significantly improve the economic development level of general cities, but it has no obvious effect on key cities; the effect on central and western regions is better than that on Eastern and northeast regions. At present, the level of economic development in China's pilot cities is improved by the input level of labor, including capital and other elements, and the level of urban innovation, especially the factor of capital input still plays an important role in promoting the economic development level of innovative cities.