Enterprise Financing Mode and Technological Innovation Behavior Selection: An Empirical Analysis Based on the Data of the World Bank’s Survey of Chinese Private Enterprises
Table 4
Control variable.
Variable dimension
Variables
Description of variables
Questions in the questionnaire
Assignments to answer
Enterprise level
Size
Workforce size
L1
Natural logarithm of “number of employees”
Degree of informatization
Knowledge intensity
CNo.8
Logarithm of the “proportion of employees using computers for work”
Age
Business years
b5
2012: year of establishment of the enterprise
Export status of the enterprise
Exports or not
d3a
Export = 1; no export = 0
External environment of enterprises
International certification
International quality certification
B8
Yes = 1; no = 0
Industry characteristic
Industry dummy variable
A4
There are four industries according to OECD industrial technology intensity standards, and three dummy variables are set
Market environment
The relationship between local government and market, product market development degree, and factor market development degree
