Digital Innovation in East Asia : Do Restrictive Data Policies Matter?

Digital technologies encourage companies to innovate with new processes, goods, and services, which ultimately enhance their competitiveness in local and global markets. This paper analyzes whether a wide set of data restrictions are negatively ass...

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Main Authors:	Ferracane, Martina Francesca, van der Marel, Erik
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	INNOVATION DATA POLICY SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PATENTS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/834121580152307973/Digital-Innovation-in-East-Asia-Do-Restrictive-Data-Policies-Matter http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33260

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spelling	okr-10986-332602022-09-20T00:13:57Z Digital Innovation in East Asia : Do Restrictive Data Policies Matter? Ferracane, Martina Francesca van der Marel, Erik INNOVATION DATA POLICY SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PATENTS Digital technologies encourage companies to innovate with new processes, goods, and services, which ultimately enhance their competitiveness in local and global markets. This paper analyzes whether a wide set of data restrictions are negatively associated with digital innovation of firms. The paper develops an index of data restrictions that measures the level of data policy restrictiveness for 15 East Asian countries over time. Using various firm-level data sets, the analysis shows that data restrictions inhibit firms' ability to innovate. The analysis takes into account that data restrictions are likely to have a greater impact in sectors that are more reliant on software. Regressions show that in countries that have more restrictive data policies, firms are less likely to use foreign technologies through licensing as part of their innovation process. Country-specific cases for which data are available also show that restrictive data policies are negatively associated with firms' likelihood of using intangible assets, such as patents and goodwill, for performing innovation (in Malaysia and China) and developing innovations as a result of research and development that are new to the market (in Vietnam). The paper concludes that open data policies are likely to foster digital innovation. 2020-01-30T19:51:41Z 2020-01-30T19:51:41Z 2020-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/834121580152307973/Digital-Innovation-in-East-Asia-Do-Restrictive-Data-Policies-Matter http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33260 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9124 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper East Asia and Pacific East Asia
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relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9124
description	Digital technologies encourage companies to innovate with new processes, goods, and services, which ultimately enhance their competitiveness in local and global markets. This paper analyzes whether a wide set of data restrictions are negatively associated with digital innovation of firms. The paper develops an index of data restrictions that measures the level of data policy restrictiveness for 15 East Asian countries over time. Using various firm-level data sets, the analysis shows that data restrictions inhibit firms' ability to innovate. The analysis takes into account that data restrictions are likely to have a greater impact in sectors that are more reliant on software. Regressions show that in countries that have more restrictive data policies, firms are less likely to use foreign technologies through licensing as part of their innovation process. Country-specific cases for which data are available also show that restrictive data policies are negatively associated with firms' likelihood of using intangible assets, such as patents and goodwill, for performing innovation (in Malaysia and China) and developing innovations as a result of research and development that are new to the market (in Vietnam). The paper concludes that open data policies are likely to foster digital innovation.
format	Working Paper
author	Ferracane, Martina Francesca van der Marel, Erik
author_facet	Ferracane, Martina Francesca van der Marel, Erik
author_sort	Ferracane, Martina Francesca
title	Digital Innovation in East Asia : Do Restrictive Data Policies Matter?
title_short	Digital Innovation in East Asia : Do Restrictive Data Policies Matter?
title_full	Digital Innovation in East Asia : Do Restrictive Data Policies Matter?
title_fullStr	Digital Innovation in East Asia : Do Restrictive Data Policies Matter?
title_full_unstemmed	Digital Innovation in East Asia : Do Restrictive Data Policies Matter?
title_sort	digital innovation in east asia : do restrictive data policies matter?
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/834121580152307973/Digital-Innovation-in-East-Asia-Do-Restrictive-Data-Policies-Matter http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33260
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Digital Innovation in East Asia : Do Restrictive Data Policies Matter?

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