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A study of the influential mechanism of digital economy on regional innovation: Based on the mediating effect of innovation ecosystem
Yuan Xumei, Zhang Ming, Li Jun, Zhang Xu
Science Research Management ›› 2026, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (10) : 74-84.
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A study of the influential mechanism of digital economy on regional innovation: Based on the mediating effect of innovation ecosystem
Insufficient innovation ecosystem and low innovation efficiency and quality are the main problems constraining the development of regional innovation in China, and the development of digital economy provides a new direction for solving these problems. Based on the panel data of provincical-level regions from 2013 to 2022, this paper estimates regional innovation performance from the perspective of innovation ecosystem, and explores the impact of digital economy on regional innovation performance by constructing a dual machine learning model with the "National Pilot Zone for Innovative Development of Digital Economy" as a quasi-natural experiment. The results show that:(1) the development of digital economy can significantly improve the regional innovation performance, which is mainly reflected in the performance improvement of the government support subsystem within the innovation ecosystem. (2) The degree of synergy between subsystems within the innovation ecosystem plays a significant mediating role in the enhancement of regional innovation performance driven by the digital economy, while neither the symbiosis level of the innovation ecosystem nor the innovation efficiency of subsystems shows such mediation. (3) There is regional heterogeneity in the enhancement of innovation performance by the digital economy, with more significant effects in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, economically developed regions, and digitally advanced regions. This paper not only broadens the theoretical perspectives on the digital economy's impact on regional innovation but also offers practical insights for leveraging digital economy development to stabilize the innovation ecosystem.
digital economy / regional innovation / innovation ecosystem / double machine learning
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Frontier research focuses on the impact of informatization on innovation efficiency. With the development of digital technology, few studies have investigated the role of digital technology on innovation efficiency, nor have they paid attention to the test of its mechanism of action and whether there is heterogeneity in the effect. Based on this, this paper uses panel data of 30 regions in China from 2007 to 2020 to test the impact of digital technology on innovation efficiency and its mechanism, and further investigate the heterogeneous impact of different government attention, different R&D intensity and different geographical locations. Research findings: first, on the whole, digital technology can significantly improve the efficiency of regional innovation. This conclusion is still valid after the robustness test and instrumental variable regression. Second, the test of the mechanism of digital technology on innovation efficiency shows that digital technology improves regional innovation efficiency through human capital accumulation, knowledge spillover and optimization of innovation factor allocation. Third, further analysis shows that there is heterogeneity in the impact of digital technology on regional innovation efficiency. In areas with high government attention, high R&D intensity and geographical advantages, the promotion of digital technology on innovation efficiency is more obvious.
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