互补与竞争：长三角地区国家级开发区技术互动的演化特征与影响因素分异

Development zones serve as core carriers of industrial agglomeration and are important engines of regional economic growth. However, during their transformation and upgrading, they often encounter challenges such as industrial homogeneity and blind competition. To address these issues, it is essential to actively respond to policy initiatives that aim to build a symbiotic and complementary industrial system in development zones and foster positive interactions among them. This study focused on 97 national-level development zones in the Yangtze River Delta region and, based on the theory of technology interaction, employed technology complementarity and competition index, social network analysis, and quadratic assignment procedure (QAP) methods to analyze the change and influencing factors of technology interaction from 1985 to 2021. The findings indicate that: 1) The technology interaction in the national-level development zones in the Yangtze River Delta region has gone through three stages—fluctuation at a low level, differentiated growth and decline, and synchronous growth— and presented a dynamic change process from competition and complementarity to technology complementarity. 2) The trends in technology interaction between national-level economic development zones and high-tech zones were generally similar, but the latter exhibited a higher intensity of interaction. 3) As the technology interaction network matures, the technology complementarity network has evolved into a "multi-core, multi-level, and wide-coverage" diamond-shaped structure, with increasingly close connections among the communities, while the technology competition network presents a decentralized "multi-point blossoming" pattern. 4) In the early stage, technology interaction was significantly influenced by administrative boundaries and hierarchical differences between cities. In the middle of the development stage, cross-regional cooperation emerged, and the impact of urban hierarchy increased. In the later stage, geographical proximity and industrial structure similarity became the primary drivers, reflecting a shift from government-led, city connection-dependent to market-driven, self-initiated cooperation. This study expands the theoretical boundaries of technology interaction, further deepens the research progress of coordinated development of development zones, and provides a contribution of knowledge based on the fundamental structure of technology elements.