数据要素赋能流通业创新发展的区域异质性及作用边界研究OA

This paper takes 30 provinces in China from 2012 to 2023 as research samples.By constructing a comprehensive evaluation index system for data elements and the innovative development of the circulation industry.and by characterizing their spatiotemporal evolution characteristics,this study adopts fixed-effect and interaction-term models to explore the contextual impacts of data elements on the innovative development of the circulation industry,and identify the boundary conditions of government behavior.The empirical results show that,first,the development levels of both data elements and circulation industry innovation achieved steady growth during the research period.Regional disparities tend to converge under the guidance of national strategies,while their spatial distribution still presents an unbalanced pattern of"the East taking the lead,the Central region keeping pace,and the West lagging behind."Second,data elements serve as a driving force empowering innovative development in the circulation industry,and their empowerment effect exhibits a spatial gradient pattern:gradually increasing from the West to the East of China.Third,the empowerment effect of the data elements has a prominent contextual dependence.Human capital and industrial upgrading exert negative moderating effects,and the coefficient signs of their interaction terms conform to the theoretical characteristics of substitution moderation.Innovation output contrasts these negative effects by generating a significant positive moderating effect,indicating that higher levels of innovation output strengthen the marginal contribution of data elements.Fourth,the moderating effect of government behavior presents remarkable regional heterogeneity;excessive government intervention restrains the empowerment effect of data elements in Eastern China,whereas it has a positive synergistic relationship with data elements in Western China.Given the imperfect market mechanisms in the Western region,moderate government intervention effectively magnifies the innovation-driven effects of data elements.These findings provide an important geographical interpretation for understanding the regional adaptability of government-market relations in the digital economy era.The conclusions offer policy references for advancing the market-oriented allocation of data elements,facilitating the digital and intelligent transformation of the circulation industry,and boosting coordinated regional development.Regarding contribution s,first,from a research perspective,it regards the incorporation of government behavior(into the analytical framework of data elements empowering circulation industry innovation)as an important institutional pathway;overcomes the bias in existing literature that overemphasizes"effective markets"while ignoring"proactive governments";constructs a three-dimensional analytical framework of"data element allocation-circulation industry innovation-government behavior boundaries";and expands the institutional analysis dimension for interdisciplinary research linking data elements and circulation economics.Second,regarding indicator construction,the study systematically constructs an evaluation system for data elements covering five dimensions(data infrastructure,development ecosystem,application level,financial support,and R&D investment),and an evaluation system for the innovative development of the circulation industry covering six dimensions(innovation,coordination,green development,openness,sharing,and security).It more comprehensively depicts the multi-dimensional characteristics and internal correlation between data elements and the innovative development of the circulation industry.Third,in terms of research methodology,this study adopts fixed-effects and interaction-term models to effectively identify the enabling effects of data elements,further explores the contingency of these effects from the perspective of three contextual dimensions(human capital,industrial upgrading,and innovation output),and reveals the regional heterogeneity embedded in the moderating effects of government behavior by incorporating spatial friction theory.Thus,it uncovers the gradient pattern,contextual dependence,and spatial adaptation mechanisms of data elements empowering the innovative development of the circulation industry from the dual dimensions of temporal evolution and spatial correlation.