进口需求、数字化赋权和企业创新

IF 2.9 3区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI:10.1016/j.asieco.2025.101903

Kai Liu , Jiayi Chen , Yuan Tian , Baobo Qu , Badar Alam Iqbal

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外部需求对企业创新的影响机制日益受到关注。然而，数字技术对这种关系的影响，特别是在数字化背景下对需求端的影响，仍未得到充分探讨。利用2000 - 2013年中国工业企业数据库、专利数据库、海关数据库和CEPII-BACI数据库的数据，研究了外部需求如何通过数字化赋权影响企业创新。研究结果表明：(1)目的地进口需求对企业创新具有抑制作用。(2)异质性分析表明，当主要出口目的地为高收入国家或企业处于高技术产业中时，外部需求对企业创新具有正向影响。(3)外部需求通过数字赋能的信息共享和技术升级效应增强企业创新能力。(4)机制检验表明，国际外需通过规模效应和竞争效应影响企业创新，随着外需的扩大，竞争效应对企业创新决策的影响总体呈负向。本研究有助于理解外需对中国出口企业创新的影响，考察数字授权如何中介这一关系，并为利用数字技术促进企业创新提供理论基础。

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Import demand, digital empowerment and firm innovation

The mechanism through which external demand influences firm innovation has garnered increasing attention. However, the impact of digital technology on this relationship, particularly on the demand side within the context of digitalization, remains underexplored. Utilizing data from the Chinese Industrial Enterprise Database, a patent database, a customs database, and the CEPII-BACI database from 2000 to 2013, this paper investigates how external demand affects firm innovation through digital empowerment. The findings indicate: (1) Destination import demand has an inhibitory effect on firm innovation. (2) Heterogeneity analysis reveals that external demand positively impacts firm innovation when the primary export destination is a high-income country or the firm operates within a high-technology industry. (3) External demand enhances firm innovation capabilities through the information-sharing and technology-upgrading effects of digital empowerment. (4) Mechanism testing shows that international external demand influences firm innovation through the scale effect and the competition effect, with the competition effect generally having a negative impact on innovation decision-making as external demand expands. This research contributes to understanding the impact of external demand on the innovation of Chinese export firms, examining how digital empowerment mediates this relationship, and providing a theoretical foundation for leveraging digital technology to promote firm innovation.

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Journal of Asian Economics ECONOMICS-

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4.70

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Asian Economics provides a forum for publication of increasingly growing research in Asian economic studies and a unique forum for continental Asian economic studies with focus on (i) special studies in adaptive innovation paradigms in Asian economic regimes, (ii) studies relative to unique dimensions of Asian economic development paradigm, as they are investigated by researchers, (iii) comparative studies of development paradigms in other developing continents, Latin America and Africa, (iv) the emerging new pattern of comparative advantages between Asian countries and the United States and North America.