数字化转型与制造企业创新决策

Digital Transformation and Manufacturing Firms'Innovation:Evidence from China

基于世界银行2012年中国企业调查数据,利用二值选择模型研究发现,数字化转型显著提高了制造企业的创新意愿;利用Tobit模型研究发现,数字化转型显著提高了制造企业的创新强度,数字化转型对制造企业协作创新和模仿创新的促进作用大于独立创新。影响机制检验表明,数字化转型通过吸收能力这个中介变量促进制造企业创新。数字化转型对大中型企业、无融资约束企业以及出口企业的创新促进作用分别大于小微企业、有融资约束企业以及非出口企业。

Based on Chinese firms'data from the World Bank's 2012 survey,using the binary choices model,this study finds that digital transformation has significantly improved the willingness of manufacturing firms to innovate.Using the Tobit model,this study finds that digital transformation has significantly improved the innovation intensity of manufacturing firms,and the conclusion is still robust when using alternative estimation methods or alternative digital transformation proxy variables or dealing with endogenous problems.With regard to the selection of innovation modes,this study finds that digital transformation has a greater effect on promoting cooperative innovation and imitation innovation than independent innovation.Further research shows that digital transformation has promoted manufacturing firms'innovation through absorptive capacity.The results of the heterogeneity analysis show that,digital transformation has a greater innovation promotion effect for large and medium-sized firms,non-financially constrained firms,and export firms than small and micro firms,financially constrained firms,and non-export firms.