Technology yields spoils: The impact of digitalization on innovation value appropriation

Yao Dong, Yuhuan Xia and Xin Qi

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2025, vol. 213, issue C

Abstract: Drawing on the Dynamic Capability View (DCV), we propose a research model to investigate how digitalization affects innovation value appropriation. Using a dataset comprising 291 listed companies within the new energy vehicles sector, our findings reveal that digitalization facilitates technical and economic value appropriation of innovation, with supply chain resilience mediating these relationships. Knowledge diversity amplifies the impact of digitalization on ambidextrous innovation value appropriation. Furthermore, heterogeneity analysis indicates that the impact of digitalization on innovation value appropriation varies among companies with different ownership structures and sizes. The innovation and business environment of the cities in which these companies are located influence the effect of digitalization on innovation value appropriation. This study advances the understanding of how digitalization affects innovation value appropriation and extends the existing literature on innovation value appropriability within the context of open innovation paradigms.

Keywords: Digitalization; Supply chain resilience; Economic value appropriation; Technical value appropriation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162525000435
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:tefoso:v:213:y:2025:i:c:s0040162525000435

DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124012

Access Statistics for this article

Technological Forecasting and Social Change is currently edited by Fred Phillips

More articles in Technological Forecasting and Social Change from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().