Research on the impact of comprehensive innovation mechanism and system reform on urban digital technology innovation

Fu Kui; Liu Bingrong; Zhang Jie

doi:10.19571/j.cnki.1000-2995.2026.08.006

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Science Research Management ›› 2026, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (8) : 55-64. DOI: 10.19571/j.cnki.1000-2995.2026.08.006 CSTR: 32148.14.kygl.2026.08.006

Research on the impact of comprehensive innovation mechanism and system reform on urban digital technology innovation

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Constructing a comprehensive innovation system and mechanism is a pivotal component of deepening reforms in the new era, serving as a crucial institutional engine for advancing the national innovation-driven strategy and Chinese-style modernization. In the digital era, the institutional dividends unleashed by comprehensive innovation system and mechanism reforms have become key to resolving “bottleneck” constraints in innovation fields, leading digital technological innovation, and cultivating new quality productive forces. Based on the panel data of prefecture-level cities from 2009 to 2022 and utilizing the establishment of the National Comprehensive Innovation Reform Experimental Zone as a quasi-natural experiment, this study employed a difference-in-differences model to investigate the impact and mechanisms of comprehensive innovation system and mechanism reforms on digital technological innovation. The results indicated that the experimental zone construction significantly promotes urban digital technological innovation, and continuously drives digital innovation. Mechanism analysis showed that the reforms facilitate digital innovation through optimizing innovation ecosystems and attracting digital talent agglomeration, while the venture capital agglomeration mechanism remains ineffective. Policy synergy analysis indicates that digital economy policies like Big Data Pilot Zones and Broadband China initiatives enhance the digital innovation effects of the comprehensive innovation system and mechanism reforms, though the policy synergy effect of government data openness remains insignificant. The coordinated implementation of these three digital economy policies with innovation system reforms generates multiplicative effects in driving digital innovation. Theoretically, this research elucidated the intrinsic mechanisms through which comprehensive innovation system and mechanism reforms drive digital technological innovation in digital ecosystems, and will provide empirical evidence for establishing long-term mechanisms that support comprehensive innovation systems in cultivating new quality productive forces.

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comprehensive innovation system and mechanism reforms / digital technology innovation / Comprehensive Innovation Reform Experimental Zone

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Fu Kui , Liu Bingrong , Zhang Jie. Research on the impact of comprehensive innovation mechanism and system reform on urban digital technology innovation[J]. Science Research Management. 2026, 47(8): 55-64 https://doi.org/10.19571/j.cnki.1000-2995.2026.08.006

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