How Does Data Input Drive Enterprise’s Technological Innovation: Concepts, Mechanisms and Paths?

In the era of digital economy, data has become not only a production factor, but also an innovation which already played profound impact on technological enterprises. What is factor? How does input drive enterprises? to promote positive effects enterprise’s innovation. Such questions have attracted attentionof academic world. This paper first explores connotation and economic characteristics data, further analyzes mechanism driving from four aspects:cost reduction, knowledge creation, optimal allocation enterprise governance. Finally, this proposes that reducing cost transactions, reconstructing cooperation network industry-university-research, accelerating integration elements andconstructing high-level rules are effective paths for data-input enterprises developping their