DOI: 10.5061/dryad.83bk3j9tp
title: Intelligentization and regional industrial competitiveness

description: 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. We collected 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. Compared with the existing literature, the
 innovation of this study lies in three aspects: (1) We
 focuse on China, a developing country with the fastest development of
 intelligent technology in the world, to discuss the relationship between
 intelligentization and industrial competitiveness in developing
 countries. (2) The research on intelligent technology mainly
 focuses on the micro level, for instance the change of the
 internal structure of the industry, which belongs to the category of
 industrial economics. The research perspective of this study is macro
 level, taking regions as the research object, focusing on the change of
 industrial competitiveness between regions in the era of
 intelligentization, which belongs to the category of economic
 geography. (3) According to the actual situation of the
 development of intelligent technology in China, we improve and construct
 the index system to evaluate the level of intelligentization. At the same
 time, the ecological niche theory is introduced for the first time in the
 process of evaluating industrial competitiveness of each 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.
description: 1.The dataset was collated from publicly available data from the
 National Bureau of Statistics and Local Bureau of Statistics.
 2.Like a large number of studies, we first constructed the“linear
 regression model” as a benchmark. 3.The competitiveness
 transfer of the industry is shown as the center of the industry changes
 from one region to another, so the spatial Dubin model needs to be
 constructed. 4.Considering that intelligent technology
 is the further development of Internet and information technology, and it
 has broken through the limit of distance, we adopted the Economic Matrix
 and Economic-Geographic Matrix.  Note: detailed
 instructions can be explained in the paper: Whether Intelligentization
 Promotes Regional Industrial Competitiveness: Evidence from China.
 (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271186)