How Digital Technology Affects the Resilience of Innovative Industry Clusters: An Empirical Study Based on the 'Foundation-Application-Innovation' Three-Dimensional Framework
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Against the backdrop of global economic development and coexisting risks, digital technology has become the core driving force for enhancing the resilience of innovative industrial clusters. This article is based on panel data of China's innovative industrial clusters, and constructs a digital technology indicator system from the three-dimensional framework of "technology foundation application innovation". Combining the system GMM model, mediation effect model, and panel threshold model, it reveals the impact of digital technology on cluster resilience. Research has found that: (1) Digital technology significantly enhances the resilience level of innovative industrial clusters through the triple role of the foundation layer, application layer, and innovation layer, with the foundation of digital technology having the most significant impact on the resilience of innovative industrial clusters; (2) The spillover effects of technology and regional scale effects play a partial mediating role in the process of enhancing the resilience of innovative industrial clusters through digital technology; (3) The impact of digital technology on resilience exhibits a significant non-linear threshold effect. When the level of digital technology development crosses the critical value of 1.9612, the marginal effect jumps from 0.7902 to 1.1116 (p<0.01), showing a non-linear increase in marginal benefits. Based on this, this article provides more possible path choices for policy makers in solving the dual dilemma of "large but not strong" industrial clusters and "low innovation level lock-in".
