Research on the influence and mechanism of digital industry agglomeration on regional quality competitiveness
Yuanyuan Hong, Ning Wang, Lu Chen
Keywords:
Digital industry agglomeration, Industrial synergy, Regional quality competitiveness, Nonlinear effect
Abstract:
With the arrival of the quality economy era, quality competition has gradually become the core competition field and strategic focus of regional development towards high quality. Digital industry agglomeration is particularly critical to the improvement of regional quality competitiveness. This paper uses panel data of 283 cities in China from 2005 to 2021. It verifies the impact of digital industry agglomeration on the improvement of regional quality competitiveness by constructing a two-way fixed effect model. The robust and endogenous results of this paper show that the results are robust. The results reveal the following: (1) Digital industry agglomeration significantly promotes regional quality competitiveness. However, the influence of digital industry agglomeration on regional quality competitiveness is non-linear. When the degree of digital industry agglomeration breaks through a certain threshold, its promoting effect on regional quality competitiveness gradually weakens, showing an inverted U-shaped influence relationship. (2) The impact of digital industry agglomeration on regional quality competitiveness shows significant heterogeneity in different locations and resource endowments. (3) Regional innovation activities, industrial collaboration quality, and industrial collaboration depth are the mechanism path of digital industry agglomeration affecting regional quality competitiveness. This study clarifies the impact of digital industry agglomeration on regional quality competitiveness and its mechanism, enriches the existing research framework, and offers valuable insights for the effective implementation of the national quality power strategy.
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 10.7441/joc.2025.01.04
Hong, Y., Wang, N., & Chen, L. (2025). Research on the influence and mechanism of digital industry agglomeration on regional quality competitiveness. Journal of Competitiveness, 17(1), 55-77. https://doi.org/10.7441/joc.2025.01.04
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