The government plays the role of legislator and regulator in the process of data gov-ernance.Strengthening data governance and activa-ting data to potential has become a key element in seizing the high ground of development and enhan-cing the comprehensive strength of the country in the context of the new development pattern.Explo-ring how government data governance promotes entrepreneurship is of considerable relevance.This article constructs comprehensive government data governance indicators for 2011-2021 based on the natural language processing(NLP)technology of deep learning(DL),and empirically examines the overall effect,and the indirect effect mechanism of government data governance affecting entrepreneurial activity.The results show that,first,government data governance can significantly increase entrepre-neurial activity,and this conclusion still holds after endogeneity test and robustness test.Second,gov-ernment data governance indirectly positively affects entrepreneurial activity through three mechanisms of action:promoting factor markets development,improving human capital levels and facilitating arti-ficial intelligence development paths.Third,there are obvious heterogeneous characteristics of the promotion effect of government data governance on entrepreneurial activity,which is more significant in regions with high capital allocation efficiency after 2016.This article not only enriches the re-search perspective of government governance,but also provides useful policy insights for releasing data dividends and analyzing the realization path of'data for entrepreneurship'.
Government data governanceNatural language processingEntrepreneurial activityFactor markets
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