财经问题研究

作为推动数字经济产业发展的重要力量，新型研发机构被视为培育新质生产力和实现经济高质量发展的生力军。基于创新价值链理论，本文剖析了新型研发机构促进数字经济产业发展的理论机理，即通过核心技术攻关、促进科技成果转化、构建产业生态等多种路径，作用于创新价值链的不同阶段，进而推动数字经济产业发展。当前新型研发机构在促进数字经济产业发展中仍面临配套政策不完善、体制机制束缚和复合型人才匮乏等挑战。对此，应着力破解新型研发机构的身份困境，处理好新型研发机构与各方的关系，构建更加灵活的人才吸引和聚集机制。

Against the backdrop of the deep implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy and increasingly fierce global technological competition, accelerating the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements and overcoming bottlenecks in key technologies requires a deep integration of industrial and innovation chains. Leveraging their independent legal status, interdisciplinary integration, and demand-oriented features, new-type R&D institutions play an increasingly vital role in technological innovation, achievement transformation, industrial upgrading, and high-level talent cultivation. They have become an emerging driving force for fostering new quality productive forces and advancing the digital economy.However, a review of existing studies shows that although some studies acknowledge the contribution of these institutions to industrial development, most fail to position them as a core driver or systematically explain their concrete pathways in promoting high-quality growth of the digital economy. Theoretical frameworks that rigorously analyze the full process of knowledge creation, transformation, and application remain scarce. Moreover, existing research lacks in-depth discussion on how the characteristics of new-type R&D institutions translate into practical advantages aligned with the unique features of the digital economy.To address this gap, this paper explores a central question: What are the internal theoretical mechanisms and key paths through which new-type R&D institutions promote the development of the digital economy? Drawing on the innovation-value-chain theory, the paper systematically analyzes how these institutions function through multiple pathways, such as core-technology breakthroughs, the transformation of scientific achievements, and the construction of industrial ecosystems, to drive the development of the digital economy from different links of the innovation value chain. The findings reveal that despite their growing importance, new-type R&D institutions still face challenges, including inadequate supporting policies, institutional and mechanism constraints, and shortages of high-level talent.Accordingly, efforts should focus on resolving institutional identity dilemmas, clarifying evaluation standards, balancing the relationships among new-type R&D institutions, the market, government, and enterprises, and building more flexible mechanisms for talent attraction and aggregation. By elucidating the mechanisms through which new-type R&D institutions operate across the innovation value chain, this paper opens the “black box” of how they drive the development of the digital economy, providing theoretical foundations and practical insights for improving the national innovation system and accelerating the cultivation of new quality productive forces.