How does digital transformation enhance enterprise technological innovation? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing listed companies

Bingbing Liu

Technology in Society, 2025, vol. 82, issue C

Abstract: Using the data of listed companies in the Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share manufacturing industry from 2013 to 2020, this paper empirically tests the effect and mechanism of digital transformation (DT) on enterprise technological innovation (ETI). The results show that DT can significantly promote ETI, and there is an inverted-U relationship between DT and ETI. DT can improve the ETI through the demand scale effect, collaborative innovation effect, and knowledge spillover effect. And the above effects explain the inverted-U relationship between DT and ETI. This paper further explores the role of digital infrastructure (DI) and finds that DI can enhance the facilitating role of DT and ETI. Moreover, demand scale effect and collaborative innovation effect work only at high-level DI regions. This article provides enlightenment for promoting enterprise DT and ETI.

Keywords: Digital transformation; Technological innovation; Non-linear effects; Digital infrastructure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160791X25000740
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:teinso:v:82:y:2025:i:c:s0160791x25000740

DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102884

Access Statistics for this article

Technology in Society is currently edited by Charla Griffy-Brown

More articles in Technology in Society from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().