This paper systematically investigates the influence of digital transformation on the innovation performance of enterprises by utilizing data from the China Industrial Enterprise Database,China Patent Database,and city-level datasets spanning from 2000 to 2013.Through complex social network analysis,the study assesses the internal and external collab-orative innovation levels of Chinese industrial enterprises to understand how digital transformation impacts enterprise inno-vation.The study confirms that digital transformation positively impacts firms'innovation performance,even after ad-dressing endogeneity issues;Digital transformation boosts innovation performance by enhancing internal and external col-laborative innovation;Enterprises in cities with abundant innovation resources and higher levels of intellectual property protection experience a more significant improvement in innovation performance through digital transformation;Digital transformation from foreign sources and digital manufacturing input types are found to be particularly beneficial for enhan-cing the innovation performance of enterprises.
digital transformationinternal collaborationexternal collaborationcollaborative innovationinnovation performance
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维普
万方数据
