Replication Data for: Internet penetration as national innovation capacity: worldwide evidence on the impact of ICTs on innovation development

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and innovations have profoundly reshaped global development. Although there are many works that have examined the direct effects of ICTs on national development in fields of economics, society and politics, the important role played by ICTs in national innovation capacity has been less widely explored from an empirical standpoint. This paper investigates the influence of Internet penetration on national innovation development, using cross-national panel data of 156 countries from 1995 to 2014. We find that Internet penetration has a significant but decreasing innovation-promotion effect, and this finding stood the test of various models and variable measures. Further study shows that there is a one-period lagged effect of Internet penetration on innovation, and political regimes moderate the innovation promotion effect of ICTs.

信息与通信技术（Information and Communication Technologies，简称ICTs）与创新深刻重塑了全球发展格局。尽管已有诸多研究从经济、社会与政治领域探讨了ICTs对国家发展的直接影响，但从实证视角出发，ICTs在国家创新能力中发挥的重要作用尚未得到广泛探究。本文采用1995年至2014年156个国家的跨国面板数据，探究互联网普及率对国家创新发展的影响。研究发现，互联网普及率对创新具有显著的促进作用，但该促进效应呈递减趋势；这一结论通过了多种模型与变量度量方式的稳健性检验。进一步研究表明，互联网普及率对创新的影响存在一期滞后效应，且政治体制会对ICTs的创新促进效应起到调节作用。