The High-Quality Development of the Construction Industry in the Context of the Digital Economy—Based on the Mediating Effect of Entrepreneurship

The digital economy is an important engine in leading the high-quality development of the economy, and entrepreneurship is an endogenous force propelling economic growth. These factors are essential drivers for advancing the transformation and upgrading of the construction industry and improving efficiency. This study integrates entrepreneurship into the analytical framework of industrial development and explores the primary pathways and theoretical mechanisms of the digital economy for the high-quality development of the construction industry from the dimensions of entrepreneurial innovation spirit and entrepreneurial pioneering spirit. On this basis, we empirically test the role mechanism between the digital economy, entrepreneurship, and the high-quality development of the construction industry. The results of this study indicate that (1) the digital economy significantly promotes the high-quality development of the construction industry through an improvement in technical efficiency; (2) the innovation and entrepreneurship of entrepreneurs are important mechanisms for the digital economy to promote the high-quality development of the construction industry, and at this stage, entrepreneurial spirit promotes more than the spirit of innovation; and (3) the development of the digital economy plays a greater role in enhancing low-productivity regions and the central and eastern regions, and the inclusive characteristics of the digital economy are beginning to emerge.

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