Administrative Borders, High-Speed Rail Corridor Connectivity, and Intercity Innovation Collaboration: Shanghai–Hefei Reproducibility Data and Code

This record contains the complete article-specific reproducibility archive for the study Administrative Borders, High-Speed Rail Corridor Connectivity, and Intercity Innovation Collaboration: Evidence from the Shanghai–Hefei Linkage in the Yangtze River Delta. The archive provides the data, code, provenance records, model-freeze documentation, audit materials, and final tables and figures used to study intercity collaborative invention patents, administrative-border associations, audited high-speed-rail corridor connectivity, and bidirectional patent transfers in the 41-city Yangtze River Delta network. The main inferential window is 2011–2020. The package includes a portable reproduction entry point and cryptographic integrity manifests. For all revised manuscript numbers and figures, users should follow ARTICLE_FILE_MAP.md and FINAL_REVISION_CANONICAL/. License and third-party materials: This record is made available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) to the extent that rights are held by the depositing authors. Included third-party materials retain their original licenses or the rights and reuse conditions of their issuing organizations. In particular, the public patent-network archive retains its recorded Figshare CC BY 4.0 license, while official statistical and railway-source materials remain subject to the conditions of the identified statistical bureaus, governments, railway authorities, and other source owners. This deposit does not grant additional rights over third-party publications or source materials.