Be regulated before be innovative? How environmental regulation makes enterprises technological innovation do better for public health

Zhou, Guichuan; Liu, Wendi; Wang, Tingting; Luo, Wenxue; Zhang, Liming

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126965

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“…The empirical analysis of the U.S. manufacturing industry [ 25 ] and highly polluting industries [ 26 ] supports the “crowding out effect” of environmental regulation, which was not conducive to the development of technology. Data from China’s A-share listed companies showed that environmental regulation inhibited enterprise technological innovation [ 18 ]. Some scholars also believe that strict environmental regulation would increase enterprise profits, but not enterprise innovation [ 27 ].…”

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“…From the current situation, after more than forty years evolving, environmental problems have become increasingly serious [ 17 ]. Evidently, China’s environmental regulations may be not all effective [ 18 ]. To explore the above-mentioned issues is of great significance for developing countries such as China, which is entering the stage of high-quality development and facing the dual pressure of economic development and environmental protection.…”

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Does Environmental Regulation Promote Industrial Green Technology Progress? Empirical Evidence from China with a Heterogeneity Analysis

Xue

Zhong

2022

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The complex relationship between environmental regulation and green technology progress has always been a hot topic of research, especially in developing countries, where the impact of environmental regulation is important. Current research is mainly concerned with the impact of the single environmental regulation on technological progress and lacks study on the diversity of environmental regulations. The main purpose of this paper is to examine the heterogeneity of the effects of different types of environmental regulation on industrial green technology progress. As China’s scale of economy and pollution emissions are both large, and the government has also made great efforts in environmental regulation, this paper takes China as the example for analyses. We first use the EBM-GML method to measure the industrial green technology progress of 30 provinces in China from 2000 to 2018, and then apply the panel econometric model and threshold model to empirically investigate the influence of 3 types of environmental regulation. The results show that, first, the impacts of environmental regulation on industrial green technology progress are significantly different; specifically, command-based regulation has no direct significant impact, and autonomous regulation has played a positive role, and market-based regulation’s quadratic curve effect is significant, in which the cost-based and investment-based tool presents an inverted U-sharped and U-sharped, respectively. Second, there may be a weak alternative interaction among different types of environmental regulation. Third, a market-based regulatory tool has a threshold effect; with the upgrading of environmental regulation compliance, the effect of a cost-based tool is characterized by “promotion inhibition”, and that of an investment-based tool is “inhibition promotion”. Finally, the results of regional analysis are basically consistent with those of the national analysis. Based on the study, policy enlightenment is put forward to improve regional industrial green technology progress from the perspective of environmental regulation. This paper can provide a useful analytical framework for studying the relationship between environmental regulation and technological progress in a country, especially in developing countries.

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Does Environmental Regulation Promote Industrial Green Technology Progress? Empirical Evidence from China with a Heterogeneity Analysis

Xue

Zhong

2022

IJERPH

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“…Moreover, due to the infrastructure construction, economic development and the degree of scientific and technological transformation in different provinces, there are also some differences in the speed and scale of green transformation of manufacturing enterprises among provinces. This will further increase the differences in environmental regulation among provinces 7,8 . Third, the degree of environmental regulation will be affected by the public environment.…”

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The spatial spillover effect of environmental regulation on the total factor productivity of pharmaceutical manufacturing industry in China

Qi-jie

et al. 2022

Sci Rep

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As an important embodiment of a country's economic strength and national health, pharmaceutical manufacturing industry has made rapid development in China in recent years. But at the same time, the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry is facing many environmental problems, such as large pollution emissions, complex pollution components, controlling difficulties and so on. This paper measures the total factor productivity of pharmaceutical manufacturing industry (HTFP) by using data envelopment analysis with unexpected output, which is more accurate and effective than the traditional model. It also studies the effect of environmental regulation on the total factor productivity of pharmaceutical manufacturing industry (HTFP) by establishing panel data regression model and spatial econometric model based on 30 provinces in China from 2004 to 2019, which enriches the research results in the field of cleaning in pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. The conclusions are as follows: (1) Environmental regulation and total factor productivity of pharmaceutical manufacturing industry have significant spatial autocorrelation, showing "high-high" or "low-low" spatial aggregation characteristics; (2) Environmental regulation has a significant promoting effect on improving pharmaceutical manufacturing total factor productivity in local and surrounding areas, and there are differences in the impact of eastern, central and western regions; (3) Green technology, production technology and industrial structure play an important role in the impact of environmental regulation on pharmaceutical manufacturing total factor productivity, which provides theoretical guidance and policy recommendations for improving the level of total factor productivity of pharmaceutical manufacturing industry in the environmental aspect.

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“…Employing the difference-in-differences (DID) model, Xu et al ( 23 ) examined the impact of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan’s environmental regulations on human health, discovering that environmental regulations reduce the risk of injury or illness among adults by 9.2 percent, with this effect being more pronounced among males, rural residents, and low-income households. Zhou et al ( 24 ) also demonstrated that more stringent environmental regulations for businesses benefit public health. Similarly, Zhang et al ( 25 ) examined the influence of atmospheric environmental policy on public health, demonstrating that it decreases the intensity of soot emissions and mitigates the detrimental health effects of air pollution.…”

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Does environmental regulation lessen health risks? Evidence from Chinese cities

Xu,

Wang,

Hou

et al. 2024

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionAtmospheric pollution is a severe problem confronting the world today, endangering not only natural ecosystem equilibrium but also human life and health. As a result, governments have enacted environmental regulations to minimize pollutant emissions, enhance air quality and protect public health. In this setting, it is critical to explore the health implications of environmental regulation.MethodsBased on city panel data from 2009 to 2020, the influence of environmental regulatory intensity on health risks in China is examined in this study.ResultsIt is discovered that enhanced environmental regulation significantly reduces health risks in cities, with each 1-unit increase in the degree of environmental regulation lowering the total number of local premature deaths from stroke, ischemic heart disease, and lung cancer by approximately 15.4%, a finding that remains true after multiple robustness tests. Furthermore, advances in science and technology are shown to boost the health benefits from environmental regulation. We also discover that inland cities, southern cities, and non-low-carbon pilot cities benefit more from environmental regulation.DiscussionThe results of this research can serve as a theoretical and empirical foundation for comprehending the social welfare consequences of environmental regulation and for guiding environmental regulation decision-making.

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Be regulated before be innovative? How environmental regulation makes enterprises technological innovation do better for public health

Cited by 17 publications

References 58 publications

Does Environmental Regulation Promote Industrial Green Technology Progress? Empirical Evidence from China with a Heterogeneity Analysis

Does Environmental Regulation Promote Industrial Green Technology Progress? Empirical Evidence from China with a Heterogeneity Analysis

The spatial spillover effect of environmental regulation on the total factor productivity of pharmaceutical manufacturing industry in China

Does environmental regulation lessen health risks? Evidence from Chinese cities

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