How do Economic Openness and R&amp;D Investment Affect Green Economic Growth?—Evidence from China

Song, Xiaoning; Zhou, Yuanxiang; Wei, Jia

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.03.050

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“…The improvement in agricultural water efficiency also depends on the continuous improvement of water-saving and emission-reduction technologies. The indexes of R&D investment and high-tech industries were also adopted in some other papers [55], but we argue that patent invention better explains the products of technical innovation. Second, the ratio of the total water resources of each province to the total population of each province, taking the natural logarithm, was used to indicate per capita water availability, which measures the abundance of water resources in each region.…”

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How High-Quality Urbanization Affects Utilization Efficiency of Agricultural Water Resources in the Yellow River Basin under Double Control Action?

2020

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To promote the high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, the total amount and intensity of agricultural water must be controlled. Further speaking, an urbanization development system should be established that is compatible with water resources and the water environment. We adopted the stochastic frontier analysis model to measure the agricultural water utilization efficiency of the Yellow River Basin from 2007 to 2017. We also adopted the dynamic panel difference generalized method of moments (GMM) and system GMM models to verify the driving factors, in which population urbanization, economic urbanization, and equilibrium urbanization levels were selected as the key variables. The results show that the overall efficiency of agricultural water utilization maintained a steady upward trend during the research period. The spatial differentiation was generally characterized by higher efficiency levels in the eastern region and lower levels in the western region. The variation coefficient of water utilization efficiency showed a downward trend in general, which indicates a space spillover effect. Agricultural water utilization efficiency continued to converge from 2007 to 2017, and the upper reaches area converged relatively more quickly. Regarding the influencing factors, the population urbanization, economic urbanization, balanced urbanization, crop planting ratio, and rice planting ratio had negative effects on agricultural water utilization efficiency. Urbanization did not positively affect agricultural water use efficiency as the related theories, so urbanization quality and urban–rural integration should be paid more attention. However, technology innovation was significantly positive in agricultural water utilization efficiency. The influencing factors of per capita water availability and annual precipitation did not pass the significance test. Therefore, the government should vigorously promote the development of high-quality new-type urbanization, scientifically formulate the scale and speed of urbanization, strengthen the urban, rural, and industrial integration, and promote the adjustment of planting structures and agricultural deep processing.

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How High-Quality Urbanization Affects Utilization Efficiency of Agricultural Water Resources in the Yellow River Basin under Double Control Action?

2020

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“…Once the economic development level exceeds the critical value, the positive promoting effect of technological innovation on GTFP will be weakened. This may be because, with the improvement of economic development level and saturation of research and development investment, scale effect no longer plays a key role in green economic growth (Song et al, 2019). This result is similar to the findings of Yi and Xiao‐Li (2018), who explores the decreasing impact of regional technological innovation on the promotion of sustainable development in China with the improvement of the economic level, and suggests standardizing technological innovation activities to ensure economic growth and maintain sustainability.…”

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“…Li et al (2019) study economic development, FDI, foreign trade, and other economy‐related factors, which were confirmed in the influence on improving GTFP. Meanwhile, Song, Zhou, and Jia (2019) believe that the degree of economic openness could promote green growth, but when the degree of openness exceeds a certain threshold, it reduces the green economy growth. Economic openness may lead to a diversion of pollution, with negative effects in some areas.…”

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Towards sustainable development: How does technological innovation drive the increase in green total factor productivity?

Wang

Pang

Hmani

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Sustainable Development

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This study aims to assess the impact of technological innovation on green total factor productivity (GTFP), within Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, by using a panel data over the period 1996–2017. The results show that technological innovation has a significant positive influence on GTFP. The interaction between technological innovation and the economic development level has a significant negative impact on GTFP. However, the interaction between technological innovation and foreign direct investment (FDI) has no significant influence on GTFP. In addition, technological innovation has a positive effect on GTFP when the economic development level is lower than the threshold value. However, technological innovation has an otherwise insignificant promotional effect. Technological innovation has a positive effect on GTFP when FDI is below the threshold value, and it has a slightly significant positive impact when FDI exceeds the threshold value. Therefore, various measures should be taken to guide technological innovation and improve its quality to promote GTFP and realize sustainable development.

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“…Song et al studied the influence of the economic opening and research and development investment on the green economy, and the results showed that there is a non-linear "inverted U-type" relationship between the degree of economic openness and the green economic growth; The influence of research and development investment on the green economy is not conducive to green economic growth in the short-term, but has a positive effect on green economic growth with time goes by. At the same time, it also showed obvious regional differences in the influence of economic opening on green economic growth, that is, the eastern region is not significant, the central region has the "U-type" relationship, the western region has the "inverted U-type" relationship [22].…”

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Sports Industry Agglomeration and Green Economic Growth—Empirical Research Based on Panel Data of 30 Provinces and Cities in China

Yang

2019

Sustainability

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Based on the panel data of 30 provinces and cities in China from 2008 to 2017, this paper empirically analyzes the current situation of the development of China’s sports industry and the impact of the concentration of sports industry on green economic growth by using the exploratory spatial data analysis method (ESDA), static panel model and dynamic panel model. The empirical results show that the sports industry in the southeast coastal provinces of China has a good foundation for concentration. The sports industry concentration in the provinces along the Yangtze River Economic Belt is in the stage of rapid development. The development of sports industry concentration has obvious positive spatial aggregation characteristics, and the spatial spillover effect is obvious; The concentration of sports industry has a significant influence on green economic growth, which expresses the “inverted U-type” relationship. There are significant differences in influence between regions, which show the greatest influence in the middle, followed by the east and the smallest in the west.

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How do Economic Openness and R&D Investment Affect Green Economic Growth?—Evidence from China

Cited by 142 publications

References 29 publications

How High-Quality Urbanization Affects Utilization Efficiency of Agricultural Water Resources in the Yellow River Basin under Double Control Action?

How High-Quality Urbanization Affects Utilization Efficiency of Agricultural Water Resources in the Yellow River Basin under Double Control Action?

Towards sustainable development: How does technological innovation drive the increase in green total factor productivity?

Sports Industry Agglomeration and Green Economic Growth—Empirical Research Based on Panel Data of 30 Provinces and Cities in China

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