The impact of broadband speed on innovation: City-level evidence from China

Wang, Jiancheng

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e12692

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“…A five-point Likert scale, ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree, was used to evaluate responses to questions regarding internet access and infrastructure. Poor infrastructure and internet connectivity were expected to have a negative impact on innovation, as they impede its implementation (Chen & Wang, 2023;Ebua, 2023). Despite the long-standing view that competition drives innovation, there is no theoretical consensus on the precise relationship between these two variables in a market economy (OECD, 2023).…”

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Entrepreneurial bricolage: A key to innovation for SMEs in a developing economy

Flaminiano

2024

Small Bus Int Rev

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Entrepreneurship promotes economic growth, particularly in developing economies where small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are a significant source of employment and economic activity. However, SMEs in developing countries often face various resource constraints and weak institutions, forcing them to engage in entrepreneurial bricolage behavior by creatively combining existing resources. This study explores the relationship between entrepreneurial bricolage and product, process, and marketing innovation among SMEs in the Philippines. Logistic regression estimates reveal that entrepreneurial bricolage has a significant and positive impact on product, process, and marketing innovation. As entrepreneurial bricolage behavior increases, so does the probability of innovation, highlighting the importance of creative problem-solving in settings with inadequate resources. The study also emphasizes the need for policies that support SMEs by providing enabling resources, such as robust infrastructure and reliable communication platforms, to encourage firm innovation that fosters positive spill-over effects on the broader economy.

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Entrepreneurial bricolage: A key to innovation for SMEs in a developing economy

Flaminiano

2024

Small Bus Int Rev

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“…Chen and Wang (2023) reached similar conclusions, but interestingly, they disaggregated the broadband impact into broadband penetration and broadband speed. The results showed that broadband speed has a greater impact on innovation promotion than broadband penetration [ 22 ]. However, other scholars argue that the impact of the Internet on economic growth and total factor productivity (TFP) improvement is not simply positive.…”

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Can Internet Construction Promote Urban Green Development? A Quasi-Natural Experiment from the “Broadband China”

Zhao

2023

IJERPH

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Broadband, as a key element of Internet infrastructure, plays an important role in breaking down barriers to the flow of production factors and promoting green economic transformation. Using the “Broadband China” strategy as a quasi-natural experiment, this study examines the impact and mechanisms of Internet infrastructure on urban green development by constructing a multi-period Difference-in-Differences (DID) model based on panel data from 277 Chinese prefecture-level cities from 2009 to 2019. The results show that the “Broadband China” pilot policy significantly promotes urban green development, with green technological innovation and talent aggregation playing important moderating roles. However, there is a certain lag in the impact of the “Broadband China” pilot policy on urban green development. Furthermore, our heterogeneity analysis suggests that the promotion of the “Broadband China” pilot policy for urban green development mainly exists in central cities, large-scale cities, and resource-based cities, as opposed to surrounding cities, small-scale cities, and non-resource-based cities. The above findings clarify the impact of Internet construction on urban green development and provide a theoretical and practical exploration for achieving a win-win situation of high-quality urban development and environmental protection.

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“…It should also include network access and maintenance services. In China, the Internet has suffered from slow network speed, low coverage and unreasonable charges (Chen, J et al, 2023). One important reason is that the Chinese broadband service market is very close to an oligopoly, controlled primarily by three state-owned enterprises, China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom, and thus lacks market competition.…”

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The impact of China’s information infrastructure construction policy on green total factor productivity: moving towards a green world

He,

Liang,

Liang

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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While achieving economic growth, China's cities have also experienced severe environmental pollution problems. To achieve the goal of green production, this paper first measures the green total factor productivity (GTFP) of Chinese prefecture-level cities using the super Slacks-Based Measure and the global Malmquist-Luenberger index (SBM-GML) model and then explores the paths affecting GTFP from the perspective of information infrastructure construction policy (IICP) using a time-varying Difference-in-Difference (time-varying DID) model. The results show that the information infrastructure construction policy significantly contributes to urban GTFP growth overall, and the implementation of the policy leads to an average increase of 0.209 in pilot cities relative to non-pilot cities. The information infrastructure construction policy contributes to urban GTFP growth through green technology diffusion effects and the improvement of employment structure.

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The impact of broadband speed on innovation: City-level evidence from China

Cited by 7 publications

References 45 publications

Entrepreneurial bricolage: A key to innovation for SMEs in a developing economy

Entrepreneurial bricolage: A key to innovation for SMEs in a developing economy

Can Internet Construction Promote Urban Green Development? A Quasi-Natural Experiment from the “Broadband China”

The impact of China’s information infrastructure construction policy on green total factor productivity: moving towards a green world

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