摘要
本文实证检验了金融科技(地区金融科技机构数/北大数字金融指数/国家金融科技试点城市)对企业突破性创新(专利引用ACD指数)的影响,结果表明,金融科技可显著提升企业突破性创新水平。在作用机制上,融资优化、知识积累、数字转型是金融科技提升企业突破性创新水平的有效渠道。本文进一步分析发现,金融科技主要是通过跨界效应,即通过引导和促进企业开展跨界研发,提升企业突破性创新水平。在金融科技的支持与引导下,非数字企业产生的数字专利具有更高的突破性创新水平。最后,在一系列异质性分析中,本文发现,资源相对稀缺与实力相对较弱的企业,在发展突破性创新上实现“弯道超车”与技术跨越,金融科技起到了重要的赋能效果。本文的发现对创新驱动中国经济高质量发展、发挥金融服务实体经济功能,具有一定现实意义。
Since the beginning of the 21st century,China has achieved prominent success in technology and industrialization,but future innovation challenges in China have also increased,particularly in the context of increasing global technology restrictions.The need to enhance the independent development of core technologies and radical innovations is critical for China's technological progress during the period of its 14th Five-Year Plan.Concurrently,with emerging digital technologies such as big data,blockchain,cloud computing,the IoT,and AI becoming prevalent in finance,China's fintech sector has experienced rapid growth.Exploring whether fintech facilitates radical innovations and how it can drive them is crucial for leveraging innovation to drive high-quality economic development and enhance financial services for the real economy.This paper constructs a complex network of 1.4 billion global patent citations to calculate a radical innovation index for all patents worldwide,and assesses the level of radical innovation in China's A-share listed companies for the period from 2007 to 2020 to empirically test the impact of fintech on corporate radical innovation.The results show that fintech considerably increases the level of corporate radical innovation.Financing optimization,knowledge accumulation,and digital transformation are effective channels through which fintech boosts innovation.Further analysis reveals that the primary effect of fintech is achieved through cross-border impacts,guiding non-digital firms in digital patent innovations.Finally,this study finds that fintech empowers resource-scarce and relatively weak enterprises to achieve rapid technological advancements ininnovation.This paper makes the following potential contributions.First,we precisely measure radical innovations in China's listed companies,providing a data-based foundation for empirical analysis of the impact of fintech on digital innovation,and offering insights for future research on radical innovation.Second,this paper explores the impact of fintech on innovation through its ability to ease financing constraints and foster knowledge accumulation and digital transformation.Thus,we expand the understanding of factors that influence corporate innovation and demonstrate the enabling effect of digital transformation,which can inform evidence-based government policies.Finally,from a theoretical perspective,this study examines the differential impacts of deepening and cross-border effects on innovation from the perspective of historical international patent classification categories and the digital industry.The results show that the main roles of fintech are to support cross-industry R&D and enhance digital innovation in non-digital firms.This study's findings provide valuable insights for continuing financial supply-side reforms and optimizing innovation incentive policies to achieve pathways to radical innovation.In the new technological revolution,the Chinese government should strengthen financial regulation and infrastructure,encourage banks to use fintech to improve loan processes,alleviate information asymmetry between banks and enterprises,and improve support for small and medium-sized enterprises to achieve radical innovation.In addition,the government should establish a diverse research and innovation support system that emphasizes innovation quality over the number of patent applications,thereby enhancing government support for scientific and technological innovation.Furthermore,businesses should consider fintech as a key technology for driving radical innovations and actively promote digital transformation,integrating their resources digitally to enhance their core competitiveness.Finally,the pronounced effect of fintech in supporting innovation in resource-scarce,weak,and less economically developed regions suggests the need for government attention to regional imbalances in fintech development.This includes increased policy and resource support for the less developed regions,improving markets,cooperation,and mutual aid mechanisms,and fostering a new pattern of mutual promotion and complementary development of radical innovation across eastern,central,and western regions.
作者
徐照宜
巩冰
陈彦名
成程
XU Zhaoyi;GONG Bing;CHEN Yanming;CHENG Cheng(School of Economics and Management,Tsinghua University;School of International Political Economy,University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences;School of Finance and Statistics,Hunan University)
出处
《金融研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2023年第10期47-65,共19页
Journal of Financial Research
基金
国家自然科学基金应急管理项目(72241403)
中国博士后科学基金面上项目(2023M742021)
清华大学文科建设“双高”计划项目(2022TSG08102)
国家社会科学基金后期资助项目(23FJYA002)的资助。
关键词
金融科技
突破性创新
知识搜索
复杂网络
数字化转型
FinTech
Radical Innovation
Knowledge Search
Complex Networks
Digital Transformation
