Can AI technology innovation promote national entrepreneurship development? Exploring the role of financial development

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping entrepreneurship by enhancing innovation, streamlining operations, and creating new business opportunities; however, its impact varies across levels of financial development and economic contexts. Using dynamic fixed-effects and dynamic panel threshold regression techniques on a panel of 23 developed and developing countries from 2002 to 2023, this study examines how AI technology innovation affects entrepreneurship. Specifically, the dynamic fi