Research on the Impact of the Digital Economy on Regional Innovation

As a new type of economy following the agricultural and industrial economies, the digital economy is reshaping the regional innovation landscape through the non-competitive nature of data elements, the strong penetration of digital technologies, and the network externalities of platform ecosystems. Based on data from 31 provinces in mainland China from 2011 to 2023, this paper constructs a two-way fixed effects model to analyze the impact and mechanisms of the digital economy on regional innovat