Environmental regulation, green technology innovation, and industrial structure upgrading: The road to the green transformation of Chinese cities

2021 ◽  
pp. 105247
Author(s):  
Kerui Du ◽  
Yuanyuan Cheng ◽  
Xin Yao
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
The Road ◽  
Industrial Structure Upgrading

scholarly journals Environmental Regulation, Government R&D Funding and Green Technology Innovation: Evidence from China Provincial Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 940 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yingyuan Guo ◽  
Xingneng Xia ◽  
Sheng Zhang ◽  
Danping Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Green Technology

scholarly journals Environmental Regulation, Government Subsidies, and Green Technology Innovation—A Provincial Panel Data Analysis from China

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (22) ◽  
pp. 11991
Author(s):  
Pei Wang ◽  
Cong Dong ◽  
Nan Chen ◽  
Ming Qi ◽  
Shucheng Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
New Era ◽  
Government Subsidies ◽  
The North ◽  
The Impact

Economic development in the “new era” will require green innovation. To encourage the growth of green technology innovation, it has become fashionable to strengthen environmental regulation. However, the impact of environmental regulation on green technology innovation, as well as the role of government subsidies, needs to be examined. Utilizing fixed-effect models and 2SLS models to explore the impact of environmental regulation on green technology innovation in China from 2003 to 2017, this research sought to examine whether environmental regulations impact green technology innovation, as well as the role of government subsidies in the above-mentioned influence path. The findings support the Porter Hypothesis by demonstrating an inverted “U” relationship between environmental regulation and green technology innovation. The impact of environmental regulation on green technology innovation varies by region. To be specific, there is an inverted “U” relationship between environmental regulation and green technology innovation in China’s central and central coast regions. In comparison, the north area, southern coast, and southwest region exhibit a “U” relationship between the two. The relationship is not significant in the Beijing-Tianjin region. Additionally, government subsidies act as an intermediate in this process, positively influencing firms to pursue green technology innovation during the earliest stages of environmental regulation strengthening. However, government subsidies above a certain level are unproductive and should be used appropriately and phased off in due course.

scholarly journals Research on the Impact of Green Technology Innovation on Energy Total Factor Productivity, Based on Provincial Data of China

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengxin Wang ◽  
Yanling Li ◽  
Gaoke Liao
Keyword(s):  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Threshold Model ◽  
Threshold Effect ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Influence Mechanism ◽  
The Impact

Against the background of carbon peaking and carbon neutralization, green technology innovation plays an important role in promoting the energy total factor productivity (TFP). This study verifies the impact of green technology innovation on energy TFP in a complete sample and the subsamples by region, by constructing a panel threshold model, and analyzes its influence mechanism on the basis of the mediating effect test based on annual provincial data of mainland China from 2005 to 2018. The empirical results reveal the following: first, with the level of economic development as the threshold variable, there is a threshold effect in the impact of green technology innovation on the energy TFP; second, green technology innovation has an impact on the energy TFP through industrial structure upgrading; that is, industrial structure has a mediating effect in the influence mechanism; and third, there is heterogeneity in the impact of green technology innovation on the energy TFP among different regions in China, and the threshold effect only exists in the western region, since the central and eastern regions have crossed a certain developmental stage.

scholarly journals Impact of Environmental Regulation Intensity on Green Technology Innovation: From the Perspective of Political and Business Connections

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4862
Author(s):  
Yu-Hong Ai ◽  
Di-Yun Peng ◽  
Huan-Huan Xiong
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Political Connections ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Business Connections ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

With heavy air pollution and the highest CO2 emissions in the world, China is in urgent need of technology innovation to improve the energy efficiency and control the pollution emission. This study empirically investigates the impact of environmental regulation intensity, political connections, and business connections on green technology innovation in China’s firms. The authors employ a panel data regression analysis on a dataset that comprises 884 observations for A-share listed companies from 2016 to 2019, owing to the availability of data. The results show: (1) Environmental regulation intensity (ERI) has a U-shaped effect on green technology innovation (GTI), which means GTI is inhibited by ERI in the early stage but gets promoted in the long run; (2) Political connections positively moderate the relationship between ERI and GTI mainly because of crowding-out effect and resource effect; (3) Business connections have a negative impact on the relationship between ERI and GTI, resulting from knowledge acquisition and lock-in; (4) Business connections have a greater moderating effect than political connections probably because political ties lack an effective mechanism to ensure long-term cooperation with the enterprises; (5) However, with regard to those firms in the non-heavily polluting industry, both connections moderate the relationship between ERI and GTI in an opposite direction to the main effect. The research results help policy makers formulate relevant policies, based on the impact of environmental regulation and social connections on green technology innovation.

scholarly journals Research on the Optimal Path of Enterprise Green Technology Innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 252 ◽  
pp. 03036
Author(s):  
Zhiyu Li ◽  
Pengjuan Lv ◽  
Shuai Hong
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Optimal Path ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Policy Tools ◽  
Green Development ◽  
The Impact

The construction of a green technology innovation system should not only give attention to technological innovation, but also pay attention to the heterogeneity of the enterprise itself. Therefore, from the dual perspectives of environmental regulation and corporate heterogeneity, we analyze the impact of corporate green technology innovation and believe that building a market-oriented green technology innovation system requires improving green development efficiency, promoting green technology R&D and application, and strengthening the combination of policy tools. Thus to support green transformation and development.

scholarly journals An Empirical Study on the Impact of Environmental Regulation on the Efficiency of Green Technology Innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 248 ◽  
pp. 02029
Author(s):  
Wu Min
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Direct Effect ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Total Effect ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
The Impact

This paper uses two-stage super efficiency network SBM DEA model to calculate the efficiency of green technology innovation, and analyzes the spillover effect of three different environmental regulations, namely command control, market incentive and independent participation. The results show that the direct effect of the command control environmental regulation on the efficiency of green technology innovation is positive, the indirect effect and the total effect are negative; the direct effect, indirect effect and total effect of market incentive environmental regulation and independent participation Environmental Regulation on the efficiency of green technology innovation are positive.

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