Whether intelligentization promotes regional industrial competitiveness: Evidence from China

PLoS One. 2022 Jul 27;17(7):e0271186. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271186. eCollection 2022.

Abstract

Intelligentization-oriented development is a fast-developing trend of technological revolution. It promotes the reconstruction of the industrial system of a region and affects its overall industrial competitiveness. This paper sets up a variety of models featuring intelligentization level and multi-dimensional industrial competitiveness, and collects data of 28 provinces and cities in China from 2003 to 2017 to test the influence of industrial intelligentization level on the industrial competitiveness of a region. The result reveals that: 1) In China's provincial jurisdictions, the higher the level of intelligentization is, the lower the overall level of industrial competitiveness and the lower the proportion of industry in the economic system will be. In regions where the facilities are highly intelligentialized, the production sectors tend to move to the less developed regions, and the growth effect of technological dividends is the focus. 2) Compared with the middle region and the Western region of China, the Eastern region, which is more developed with higher intelligentization level, has stronger ability in the research and development (R&D) of technologies, and the economic structure of the industry there tends to be stable, manifesting a strong growth potential.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • China
  • Cities
  • Economic Development
  • Industry*
  • Technology*

Associated data

  • Dryad/10.5061/dryad.83bk3j9tp

Grants and funding

Funding was provided by the Key Program of the National Social Science Fund of China [https://www.nopss.gov.cn], Grant/Award Number: 20&ZD095, granted to Chuanhao Wen. This material is based upon research supported by the Chongqing Scientific Research Innovation Project for Postgraduate Students [https://www.cq.gov.cn] under Grant No.CYS21379, awarded to Yi Li. And This material is also based upon research supported by the Humanities and Social Sciences Project of Chongqing Education Commission [https://www.cq.gov.cn] under Grant No.17SKJ038, awarded to Bingjian Zhao.