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How Digital Economy drive the Optimization and Upgrading of Industrial Structure? the Mediating Effect of Innovation and the Role of Economic Resilience

Version 1 : Received: 25 December 2023 / Approved: 26 December 2023 / Online: 26 December 2023 (10:05:37 CET)

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Song, Y.; Jiang, Y. How Does the Digital Economy Drive the Optimization and Upgrading of Industrial Structure? The Mediating Effect of Innovation and the Role of Economic Resilience. Sustainability 2024, 16, 1352. Song, Y.; Jiang, Y. How Does the Digital Economy Drive the Optimization and Upgrading of Industrial Structure? The Mediating Effect of Innovation and the Role of Economic Resilience. Sustainability 2024, 16, 1352.

Abstract

The digital economy (DE) has become a major force driving the optimization and upgrading of industrial structures (ISOU), and research on the driving mechanism has yet to be verified. To this end, the driving influence of DE on the ISOU is targeted, and the role played by economic resilience (ER) and innovation is explored. Based on the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2011 to 2020, the driving influence of the DE on the ISOU is analyzed using a two-way fixed-effects model. The empirical study finds that the DE presents a positive driving effect on both industrial structure advancement and rationalization, and the driving effect is still significant after the addition of control variables and the robust-type test with one period of lag; the DE presents regional differences in ISOU, with the driving effect of the DE on industrial structure advancement in the eastern region having a more significant performance than that of the central and western regions, and the driving influence on the rationalization of industrial structure in the eastern and western regions exceeds that in the central region; the impact of DE on the ISOU has a mediating role through innovation, ER has a moderating role in the process, and innovation as a partial mediator also has a threshold effect, and finally countermeasure suggestions are put forward.

Keywords

digital economy; industrial structure; Optimization and upgrading; economic resilience; innovation

Subject

Business, Economics and Management, Econometrics and Statistics

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