How does energy technology innovation affect total factor ecological efficiency: Evidence from China.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuochen Li ◽  
Ziyi Shi ◽  
Dongri Han
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Threshold Model ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Energy Technology ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Ecological Efficiency ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Recently, with the dual constraints of resources and environment, to accelerate the transformation of low-carbon energy driven by energy technology innovation has become a global development trend. On account of the provincial data during the period of 2000 to 2017, we creatively incorporate the ecological footprint into the measurement of total factor ecological efficiency so as to infer the coordinated development level of 3E system more precisely. In this paper, the dynamic spatial impact of energy technological innovation on regional total factor eco-efficiency is explored through the spatial Durbin model, and the complex nonlinear relationship between the two is further probed by constructing the panel threshold model. The following conclusions are obtained ultimately. First of all, both China's provincial ecological efficiency and energy technology innovation activities possess significant spatial positive correlation, which manifests as the spatial geographical distribution agglomerated by the similar characteristics; Secondly, the regional energy technology innovation has a remarkable spatial effect on ecological efficiency, which displays a U-shaped trend. And compared with the direct effect, the spatial spillover effect is more intense, along with more stronger long-term influence; Finally, taking the level of regional economic development as the moderating variable, the impact of energy technology innovation on eco-efficiency emerges a conspicuous threshold effect with two threshold values. Only when the level of economic development crosses the double threshold, can energy technology innovation activities significantly improve the regional total factor ecological efficiency. After the robustness test and discussion of the empirical model, relevant policy suggestions are put forward based on the conclusions of the paper.

scholarly journals The impact of LCTI on China's low-carbon transformation from the spatial spillover perspective

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. e0242425
Author(s):  
Wenchao Li ◽  
Jian Xu ◽  
Zhengming Wang ◽  
Jialiang Yang
Keyword(s):  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Promotion Effect ◽  
Spatial Spillover ◽  
Sar Model ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Auto Regression ◽  
Spatial Spillover Effect

China has conducted a long-term low-carbon technology innovation (LCTI), but there was a faster increase of CO2 emission in 2017 and 2018 than in 2016, which has lead scholars to doubt the effect of LCTI on CO2 emission. This paper builds a spatial auto regression (SAR) model with provincial panel data from 2011 to 2017 to calculate the spatial spillover effect of China's LCTI on regional CO2 emission. The results show that regional LCTI can reduce the local CO2 emission, but will increase the CO2 emission of adjacent regions due to spatial spillover effect. This produces the uncertainty of the promotion effect of LCTI on China's low-carbon transformation. Therefore, this paper suggests innovation resources should be appropriately and evenly distributed among regions to avoid their agglomeration in few regions.

scholarly journals Does the Low-Carbon City Pilot Policy Promote Green Technology Innovation? Based on Green Patent Data of Chinese A-Share Listed Companies

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 3695
Author(s):  
Jintao Ma ◽  
Qiuguang Hu ◽  
Weiteng Shen ◽  
Xinyi Wei
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Corporate Financing ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Low Carbon City ◽  
The Impact ◽  
A Share

To cope with climate change and achieve sustainable development, low-carbon city pilot policies have been implemented. An objective assessment of the performance of these policies facilitates not only the implementation of relevant work in pilot areas, but also the further promotion of these policies. This study uses A-share listed enterprises from 2005 to 2019 and creates a multi-period difference-in-differences model to explore the impact of low-carbon city pilot policies on corporate green technology innovation from multiple dimensions. Results show that (1) low-carbon city pilot policies stimulates the green technological innovation of enterprises as manifested in their application of green invention patents; (2) the introduction of pilot policies is highly conducive to green technological innovation in eastern cities and enterprises in high-carbon emission industries; and (3) tax incentives and government subsidies are important fiscal and taxation tools that play the role of pilot policies in low-carbon cities. By alleviating corporate financing constraints, these policies effectively promote the green technological innovation of enterprises. This study expands the research on the performance of low-carbon city pilot policies and provides data support for a follow-up implementation and promotion of policies from the micro perspective at the enterprise level.

scholarly journals Rural Financial Development Impacts on Agricultural Technology Innovation: Evidence from China

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1110
Author(s):  
Yuyu Liu ◽  
Duan Ji ◽  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Jingjing An ◽  
Wenyan Sun
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Agricultural Technology ◽  
Rural Finance ◽  
Rural Economic Development ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

Agricultural technology innovation is key for improving productivity, sustainability, and resilience in food production and agriculture to contribute to public health. Using panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2003 to 2015, this study examines the impact of rural financial development on agricultural technology innovation from the perspective of rural financial scale and rural finance efficiency. Furthermore, it examines how the effects of rural financial development vary in regions with different levels of marketization and economic development. The empirical results show that the development of rural finance has a significant and positive effect on the level of agricultural technology innovation. Rural finance efficiency has a significantly positive effect on innovation in regions with a low degree of marketization, while the rural financial scale has a significantly positive effect on technological innovation in regions with a high degree of marketization. Further analysis showed that improving the level of agricultural technology innovation is conducive to rural economic development. This study provides new insights into the effects of rural financial development on sustainable agricultural development from the perspective of agricultural technology innovation.

scholarly journals Cooperative Green Technology Innovation of an E-Commerce Sales Channel in a Two-Stage Supply Chain

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7499
Author(s):  
Zongyu Mu ◽  
Yuangang Zheng ◽  
Hao Sun
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Product Market ◽  
Free Riding ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Sales Channel ◽  
Innovation Activities

The potential broad market of green consumption has encouraged an increasing number of enterprises to carry out green technology innovation activities. This paper examines a two-stage supply chain of e-commerce sales channels under different cooperative models. We find that consumers’ green preferences are the main factor that affects green product market demand. The manufacturer and the retailer can raise the levels of green technology innovation and extend green promotional services to expand product market demand in online and offline channels. However, consumers’ e-commerce preferences and online free-riding behaviors affect the manufacturer’s sales channel choice. The retailer can improve the level of green promotional services to hold offline channel market demand, while promotional behaviors have a positive/negative spillover effect on online market demand if the level of free riding falls above/below consumers’ e-commerce preferences. The higher the cooperative level is, the later the manufacturer will open the online channel and close the offline channel to ensure a high level of green promotional service from the cooperative retailer. The results show that the stronger the level of cooperation among all members is, the better the economic, ecological, and social benefits will be. Therefore, we design a revenue-cost sharing contract that can effectively motivate green technology innovation and green promotional services and afford all members win-win profits.

scholarly journals The Impact of Financial Development on Innovation Activities in Emerging and Developing Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 112 ◽  
Author(s):  
KamiliaKamilia LoukilLoukil
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Threshold Model ◽  
Threshold Value ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Linear Effects ◽  
Emerging And Developing Countries ◽  
The Impact

We investigate in this paper the effect of financial development on innovation in emerging and developing countries. The estimation of panel threshold model for a sample 54 countries during the period 1980-2009 shows the presence of non linear effects in the relationship between financial development and innovation. We find a threshold value of economic development below which the financial development level has no significant impact on innovation and above which financial development has a significant positive impact on innovation. In sum, our findings suggest that the presence of a healthy economic environment is crucial for financial institutions to offer high-quality financial services, promoting more innovation.

scholarly journals The Impact of China’s Low-Carbon Initiative on the Location Expansion of International SPA Enterprises

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Zhaoyang Zhao ◽  
Chong Ye
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Inhibitory Effect ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Suppression Effect ◽  
Carbon Neutrality ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Impact

“Fast fashion” represents a short product life cycle, and international SPA enterprises are therefore criticised as representatives of high energy consumption, pollution, and emissions, which is contrary to China’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality. In the context of China’s shift to a low-carbon economic development model, how should SPA enterprises breakthrough in the face of China’s large-scale market advantage and domestic demand potential? Based on the statistics of 277 prefecture-level cities from 2010 to 2018, this article selects 5 leading international SPA enterprises and uses the difference-in-differences (DID) method to explore the impact of low-carbon initiative on the location expansion of international SPA enterprises. The results suggest that the quantity of location expansions of SPA enterprises in the pilot cities is significantly lower by approximately 0.418 units compared with the nonpilot cities, implying that the low-carbon initiative has a significant inhibitory effect on the location expansion of SPA enterprises. After a series of robustness tests, the conclusion is valid. The results of the heterogeneity test suggest that the suppression effect is mainly found in the subsample of central cities and cities with medium and low levels of economic development. This article proposes that SPA enterprises should reduce their carbon emissions and gradually explore a green and sustainable development path.

scholarly journals Research on the Development of New Energy Vehicle Sharing in China Based on the Concept of Green Travel

2020 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 01024
Author(s):  
Anqi Lv ◽  
Zhiqiang Zhu ◽  
Guohua Cheng ◽  
Yi Jia ◽  
Ling Shi
Keyword(s):  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Urban Traffic ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Transport Service ◽  
Transportation Equipment ◽  
New Energy ◽  
Urbanization In China ◽  
New Energy Vehicle ◽  
The Impact

As the urbanization in China is accelerating, “urban diseases” such as city congestion and environmental pollution arise. Traffic is one of the important factors leading to such urban problems. Therefore, in order to succeed in pollution prevention and control, overcome the shortcomings in urban traffic, and realize high-quality development of transport service, we should promote the development of green transport based on low carbon and environmental protection, and intensively implement green travel. First of all, we should accelerate the upgrading of transportation equipment technology, speed up the promotion and application of new energy vehicles in the field of car sharing, and promote the green and low-carbon development of transport service. Based on it, this paper first defines the green travel, new energy vehicle sharing and other related concepts, and analyzes the impact of new energy vehicle sharing, and then sorts out the development process of new energy vehicle sharing in China and analyzes the development trend and problems being confronted with in this field, and finally puts forward the development policy suggestions on domestic new energy vehicle sharing.

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.

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