Digital Innovation Cooperation,Application Gap,and Interregional Common Prosperity
Against the backdrop of the digital wave sweeping across the world,the digital application gap may lead to new wealth disparities. The digital application gap refers to the differences in regional parti-cipation and application capabilities in the digital society. The innovation cooperation of digital technology between regions is an important measure to narrow the digital application gap and promote common prosper-ity. This paper examines from the perspective of digital application gap whether collaborative innovation in di-gital technology research and development can promote common prosperity between regions in China by im-proving digital application capabilities. By manually collecting data on joint patent applications for digital technology in Chinese cities from 2013 to 2019,this paper investigates the impact of digital innovation co-operation on household income levels and interregional income disparities. The study shows that:First,digital innovation cooperation significantly improves household income levels,which is more effective for western regions. In regions with a high level of digital development,digital innovation cooperation has a greater im-pact on income enhancement,indicating that the digital development level has a supportive effect on the trans-formation of digital innovation cooperation results;the spillover effect of industry-university-research cooper-ation is significant,and its improvement effect on regional income is relatively stronger. Second,digital innov-ation cooperation promotes the growth of household income levels by enhancing digital application capabilit-ies,and the improvement effect in central and western regions is greater than that in eastern regions. Third,the digital attention of micro-subjects positively regulates the improvement effect of digital innovation coopera-tion on regional digital application capabilities. This regulatory effect varies depending on the subject:Govern-ment attention tends to regulate digital development capabilities,while public digital attention tends to regu-late digital wealth generation capabilities. Fourth,digital innovation cooperation has a shared spillover effect,which can bridge the digital application gap between regions,thereby narrowing the wealth gap and achieving shared development. This paper not only provides empirical evidence for the relationship between digital in-novation cooperation and common prosperity,but also explores the internal mechanism of this relationship from the perspective of narrowing the digital application gap,providing policy inspiration for narrowing the digital application gap and achieving common prosperity.
digital economydigital dividedigital innovation cooperationcommon prosperity
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