互联网对中国制造业进口企业创新的影响

The Influence of Internet on Innovation of China’s Manufacturing Importers

本文使用中国进口制造业企业数据,考察了互联网对企业创新的微观影响和作用机制。研究发现,互联网的使用显著提升了我国制造业进口企业的创新水平,且该作用效果在大规模、高效率、民营、出口、资本和技术密集型的东部企业中更为显著。进一步地,互联网主要通过提升进口制造业企业的进口产品质量来促进企业创新;进口产品种类和进口规模的作用效果并不突出。最后,互联网在促进进口制造业企业独立创新的同时,也显著地促进了企业协同创新水平的提高。本文的研究对于数字经济时代制造业企业竞争力和制造业质量的提升具有一定的现实意义。

Using the data of China’ s import manufacturing firms,this paper examined the micro-impact as well as the mechanisms of Internet on innovation. The study finds that the Internet has significantly improved the level of innovation in China’ s manufacturing importers. And the effect is more prominent in large-scale,high-efficiency,private,export,capital and technology-intensive eastern firms. Further,the Internet mainly promotes firms’ innovation by improving the quality of imported products,and neither the effects of imported product types nor scales is obvious. Finally,while promoting the independent innovation of manufacturing importers,the Internet has also significantly improved the level of collaborative innovation. This paper has certain practical significance for improvement of the competitiveness and the quality of China’ s manufacturing industry in the digital economy era.