Digital technology is the most dynamic frontier of contemporary global scientific and technological advancements,serving as a central driver of today’s technological progress.Ongoing R&D and deployment of digital...Digital technology is the most dynamic frontier of contemporary global scientific and technological advancements,serving as a central driver of today’s technological progress.Ongoing R&D and deployment of digital innovative technologies have rendered international competition and cooperation increasingly complex in both implications and forms.Beyond its role in accelerating technological progress,digital technology enhances state capability by adding a digital dimension to national power.It enables states that possess comparative advantages in digital R&D and deployment to gain greater influence in shaping international discourse,thereby widening the power gap among nations.展开更多
Moving beyond the static“enabling-rebound”framework,this paper introduces Socio-Technical Transition(STT)theory and its Multi-Level Perspective(MLP)to conceptualize green digital trade as a dynamic system linking da...Moving beyond the static“enabling-rebound”framework,this paper introduces Socio-Technical Transition(STT)theory and its Multi-Level Perspective(MLP)to conceptualize green digital trade as a dynamic system linking data governance and the trade regime.We identify the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism(CBAM)as a“landscape shock”that destabilizes the incumbent,carbon-intensive trade“regime”by pricing embedded carbon at the border.In response,we propose“Digital Carbon Competitiveness”(DCC)—a firm’s dynamic capability to measure,manage,verify,and valorize carbon emissions using digital tools—as the critical“niche lever”for scaling innovation.Based on this,we outline a multi-level governance design(micro-niche incubation,meso-regime reformation,macro-rule shaping)and derive a set of testable propositions on how the interaction between CBAM and DCC affects emissions and competitiveness.The pa-per’s contributions are threefold:(1)extending MLP theory to the under-researched domain of international trade;(2)conceptualizing and operationalizing DCC;and(3)proposing an integrated governance pathway for shaping the“twin transition.”展开更多
Characterized as they are by dynamic competition,cross-border operation,the network effect and oligopoly competition,digital platforms present a serious and complex monopoly problem,one that undermines competition,dam...Characterized as they are by dynamic competition,cross-border operation,the network effect and oligopoly competition,digital platforms present a serious and complex monopoly problem,one that undermines competition,damages consumers’ interests,suppresses the vitality of innovation and hinders high-quality development.They should therefore be brought under stricter anti-monopoly regulation.The traditional regulatory cycle of “stricter regulation brings everything to a standstill;looser regulation brings chaos in its wake” is a chronic problem in China’s market regulation,so the anti-monopoly regulation of digital platforms needs to avoid this regulatory paradox.To address digital platforms’ two-sided markets,dynamic competition and disruptive innovation,we need to create appropriate new theories of anti-monopoly regulation by establishing the principle of positive,inclusive and prudent regulation based on the concept of modesty.In the current context,efforts to strengthen regulation do not lay undue emphasis on tighter regulation and heavier penalties,but rather focus on regulatory transformation and innovation,aiming thereby to effectively improve regulation.Good law is the premise of good governance.It is necessary to speed up the revision of the Anti-Monopoly Law to include provisions for improving digital competition rules in order to provide high-quality regulatory systems.Actively promoting efficient,inclusive and prudent regulation,fair and impartial regulation,collaborative and integrated regulation,incentive-based regulation,credit regulation and intelligent regulation on the basis of good law,along with technology-enabled regulation,is a good governance approach to realizing anti-monopoly platform regulations.展开更多
文摘Digital technology is the most dynamic frontier of contemporary global scientific and technological advancements,serving as a central driver of today’s technological progress.Ongoing R&D and deployment of digital innovative technologies have rendered international competition and cooperation increasingly complex in both implications and forms.Beyond its role in accelerating technological progress,digital technology enhances state capability by adding a digital dimension to national power.It enables states that possess comparative advantages in digital R&D and deployment to gain greater influence in shaping international discourse,thereby widening the power gap among nations.
文摘Moving beyond the static“enabling-rebound”framework,this paper introduces Socio-Technical Transition(STT)theory and its Multi-Level Perspective(MLP)to conceptualize green digital trade as a dynamic system linking data governance and the trade regime.We identify the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism(CBAM)as a“landscape shock”that destabilizes the incumbent,carbon-intensive trade“regime”by pricing embedded carbon at the border.In response,we propose“Digital Carbon Competitiveness”(DCC)—a firm’s dynamic capability to measure,manage,verify,and valorize carbon emissions using digital tools—as the critical“niche lever”for scaling innovation.Based on this,we outline a multi-level governance design(micro-niche incubation,meso-regime reformation,macro-rule shaping)and derive a set of testable propositions on how the interaction between CBAM and DCC affects emissions and competitiveness.The pa-per’s contributions are threefold:(1)extending MLP theory to the under-researched domain of international trade;(2)conceptualizing and operationalizing DCC;and(3)proposing an integrated governance pathway for shaping the“twin transition.”
文摘Characterized as they are by dynamic competition,cross-border operation,the network effect and oligopoly competition,digital platforms present a serious and complex monopoly problem,one that undermines competition,damages consumers’ interests,suppresses the vitality of innovation and hinders high-quality development.They should therefore be brought under stricter anti-monopoly regulation.The traditional regulatory cycle of “stricter regulation brings everything to a standstill;looser regulation brings chaos in its wake” is a chronic problem in China’s market regulation,so the anti-monopoly regulation of digital platforms needs to avoid this regulatory paradox.To address digital platforms’ two-sided markets,dynamic competition and disruptive innovation,we need to create appropriate new theories of anti-monopoly regulation by establishing the principle of positive,inclusive and prudent regulation based on the concept of modesty.In the current context,efforts to strengthen regulation do not lay undue emphasis on tighter regulation and heavier penalties,but rather focus on regulatory transformation and innovation,aiming thereby to effectively improve regulation.Good law is the premise of good governance.It is necessary to speed up the revision of the Anti-Monopoly Law to include provisions for improving digital competition rules in order to provide high-quality regulatory systems.Actively promoting efficient,inclusive and prudent regulation,fair and impartial regulation,collaborative and integrated regulation,incentive-based regulation,credit regulation and intelligent regulation on the basis of good law,along with technology-enabled regulation,is a good governance approach to realizing anti-monopoly platform regulations.
