Internet penetration as national innovation capacity: worldwide evidence on the impact of ICTs on innovation development

IF 5.1 3区管理学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Information Technology for Development Pub Date : 2021-03-05 DOI:10.1080/02681102.2021.1891853

Feng Xiong, Leizhen Zang, Yanyan Gao

引用次数: 14

Abstract

ABSTRACT Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and innovations have profoundly reshaped global development. Although there are many works that have examined the direct effects of ICTs on national development in fields of economics, society and politics, the important role played by ICTs in national innovation capacity has been less widely explored from an empirical standpoint. This paper investigates the influence of Internet penetration on national innovation development, using cross-national panel data of 156 countries from 1995 to 2014. We find that Internet penetration has a significant but decreasing innovation-promotion effect, and this finding stood the test of various models and variable measures. Further study shows that there is a one-period lagged effect of Internet penetration on innovation, and political regimes moderate the innovation promotion effect of ICTs.

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互联网渗透作为国家创新能力：信息和通信技术对创新发展影响的全球证据

摘要信息和通信技术及其创新深刻地重塑了全球发展。尽管有许多著作在经济、社会和政治领域研究了信息和通信技术对国家发展的直接影响，但从实证的角度来看，信息和通信科技在国家创新能力中发挥的重要作用还没有得到广泛探讨。本文利用1995-2014年156个国家的跨国家面板数据，研究了互联网普及对国家创新发展的影响。我们发现，互联网渗透对创新的促进作用显著但递减，这一发现经得起各种模型和可变指标的检验。进一步的研究表明，互联网渗透对创新的促进作用存在一个时期的滞后效应，政治制度对信息通信技术的创新促进作用起到了调节作用。

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Information Technology for Development Multiple-

CiteScore

11.30

自引率

16.70%

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期刊介绍： Information Technology for Development , with an established record for publishing quality research and influencing practice, is the first journal to have explicitly addressed global information technology issues and opportunities. It publishes social and technical research on the effects of Information Technology (IT) on economic, social and human development. The objective of the Journal is to provide a forum for policy-makers, practitioners, and academics to discuss strategies and best practices, tools and techniques for ascertaining the effects of IT infrastructures in government, civil societies and the private sector, and theories and frameworks that explain the effects of IT on development. The concept of development relates to social, economic and human outcomes from the implementation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools, technologies, and infrastructures. In addition to being a valuable publication in the field of information systems, Information Technology for Development is also cited in fields such as public administration, economics, and international development and business, and has a particularly large readership in international agencies connected to the Commonwealth Secretariat, United Nations, and World Bank.