International Business and Enterprise Seminar Series. "Data Capital, Export Upgrade and the Global Heterogeneity Knowledge Spillover Effect"
Published: 8 April 2025
7 May 2025. Dr Xinwei Shi, Durham University
Dr Xinwei Shi, Durham University
"Data Capital, Export Upgrade and the Global Heterogeneity Knowledge Spillover Effect"
Wednesday, 7 May 2025. 14:00-15:30
Online Webinar
Abstract
In the digital era, data capital has become a new production factor and a driving force for technological innovation. Using panel data from 31 provinces in mainland China from 2012 to 2019, this paper constructs a method for estimating the value of data capital (raw data and structured data) in each region and verifies the positive role of data in enhancing regional export technological sophistication (ETS). Moreover, this paper explores the innovation mechanism through which data enhances ETS and analyzes the interaction between data and various other production factors in different types of innovation. Moreover, through a heterogeneous analysis of exports to different types of regions worldwide, we investigate how these cross-border export patterns, influenced by different knowledge spillover effects, play varying moderating roles in the impact of data on enhancing ETS. Specifically, exporting to regions with higher knowledge or technological compatibility enhances the role of data capital in improving ETS, better leveraging the new data-based resource advantage. We believe this research makes a meaningful contribution to the literature on international knowledge spillovers by deepening our understanding of their dynamics and implications, and offers valuable policy and practical insights into the evolving data-driven economy and emerging patterns of cross-border exports.
Bio
Xinwei Jason Shi is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at Durham University Business School. He earned a PhD from Durham University and completed full-time postdoctoral research at Tsinghua University. Before joining Durham University, he served as a Lecturer at Newcastle University, a Lecturer and Chief Youth Professor at the Capital University of Economics and Business, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua University.
His research has been published in leading international academic journals, including Production and Operations Management (UTD24, ABS4), Long Range Planning (ABS4), Technovation (ABS3), Industrial and Corporate Change (ABS3), Journal of Business Research (ABS3), Technological Forecasting and Social Change (ABS3), International Business Review*2 (ABS3), and Journal of Digital Economy*2. He currently serves on the Editorial Review Board of Long Range Planning, Management and Organization Review, Journal of International Business Policy, and Journal of Digital Economy.
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First published: 8 April 2025