Spatial Effects of Environmental Regulation and Green Credits on Green Technology Innovation under Low-Carbon Economy Background Conditions

Guo, Qi; Zhou, Min; Liu, Nana; Wang, Yao‐Yu

doi:10.3390/ijerph16173027

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“…GPI is the exploration and adaption of production process in order to reduce environmental impact of firms [1,2]. Literature has identified some forms of green process technology, such as clean production, pollution control, pollution prevention, eco-efficiency, and recirculation [4,5,6,7]. As the government and the public pay more attention to environmental issues, GPI has become an important way for firms to maintain competitiveness [9,35].…”

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“…Existing studies have focused on the drivers of GPI from outside firms. Although abundant literature verifies that governmental regulations and stakeholder pressures can trigger the improvement in production process of firms [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13], how to develop GPI is still under-researched. Technological innovation cannot happen spontaneously, and innovators often encounter many problems during the innovation process [14,15].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The research sample in this article is the Chinese manufacturing industry. China is experiencing unprecedented economic and environmental changes [4]. The development model has long placed economic growth above environmental protection, making China one of the most polluted countries [7].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The government has placed more emphasis on resource conservation and environmental protection [19]. In the 13th Five Year Plan (2016–2020), the Chinese government clearly pointed out that it is vital to gain sustainable development [4,5]. In order to improve natural environment, the central government sends inspection teams periodically.…”

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Influence of Environmental Management on Green Process Innovation: Comparison of Multiple Mediating Effects Based on Routine Replication

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Although green process technology is vital to sustainable development, few articles focus on how to implement it from the perspective of firms. This article tries to answer this question. Being set as an antecedent of green process innovation, the influence of environmental management is analyzed and the influential path is elaborated. Hypotheses are tested by means of multivariate regression analysis and bootstrap method. The results show that environmental management is conducive to firms’ green process innovation, and the influence is through zero-order routine replication and higher-order routine replication. The mediating effect played by the interaction between the two is stronger than that of the individual. Implications are given to academia and practitioners.

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“…The impacts of ERs on TI have been widely studied for several decades [14,15], and diverse resulting relationships (e.g., positive, negative, neutral and nonlinear) have been found [14,[16][17][18]. In this paper, we also analyze the impacts of ERs on TI in the Chinese context, but there are several differences compared to prior studies.…”

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Opening the Black Box: The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Technological Innovation

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Environmental regulations (ERs) that can stimulate technological innovation (TI) are the key to enabling a win-win strategy that benefits both economic development and environmental protection. This study seeks to analyze the impacts of ERs on TI. Previous literature highlighted that the black box of TI can be decomposed into technology investment and technology transformation, but empirical studies on such a decomposition have largely been ignored. Moreover, a detailed discussion of the links between ERs and the decomposed components of TI has not been conducted in developing countries such as China. Our study attempts to address these research gaps by (i) decomposing TI using a novel data envelopment analysis (DEA) procedure and further analyzing the impacts of ERs on the decomposed components of TI and (ii) applying this novel methodology to Chinese context. Accordingly, this study is conducted in two stages. First, a novel application of the slack-based measure Network DEA model is developed to uncover the black box of TI using Chinese data in order to estimate the overall efficiency of technological innovation (TIE) and to decompose it into the efficiency of technology investment (TVE) and the efficiency of technology transformation (TTE). Second, a random effect Tobit model is applied to (i) investigate both the linear and nonlinear impacts of ERs on TIE in all sectors and (ii) examine whether the impacts of ERs on TVE and TTE in different subprocesses are heterogeneous or not. Our results have showed the benefits of decomposing TI: while technology transformation in China closely follows the trend of TI, the trend of technology investment is somewhat different. The estimation results further indicate that the impacts of ERs on TIE are nonlinear. Besides, ERs have heterogeneous impacts on the decomposed components of TI. The impacts of ERs on TVE are nonlinear, whereas the impacts of ERs on TTE are statistically insignificant.

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A nonlinear relationship between corporate environmental performance and economic performance of green technology innovation: Moderating effect of government market‐based regulations

Wang

2022

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Green technology innovation corporates can effectively coordinate the relationship between the environment and the economy, which has been an area of interest among academia and governments. To stimulate the sustainable green technology innovation of corporates, it is necessary to clarify the internal correlation among green technology innovation, environmental performance, and economic performance. Based on the information of 642 industrial corporates obtained from a field investigation in China, this article systematically examines the relationships between corporate green technology innovation and environmental performance, economic performance, and the moderating effect of different governmental market‐based regulations on these relationships. The results show the following. (1) Green technology innovation can significantly improve corporate environmental performance and economic performance. (2) Corporate environmental performance can be transformed into economic performance, and an improvement in environmental performance leads to an increase in the economic performance produced by unit environmental performance, which shows a nonlinear relationship. (3) Government supply‐based market regulation negatively moderates the relationship between end‐of‐pipe technology innovation and environmental performance while positively moderating the relationship between green process innovation and environmental performance and the relationship between green product innovation and economic performance; government demand‐based market regulation positively moderates the relationship between green process innovation and environmental performance and the relationship between green process innovation and economic performance; government competitive‐based market regulation only has a positive effect on the relationship between green product innovation and economic performance. (4) Government market‐based regulations can positively promote the transformation from environmental performance to economic performance. The stronger the market‐based regulations, the greater the economic performance that corporate environmental performance can bring.

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Spatial Effects of Environmental Regulation and Green Credits on Green Technology Innovation under Low-Carbon Economy Background Conditions

Cited by 82 publications

References 33 publications

Influence of Environmental Management on Green Process Innovation: Comparison of Multiple Mediating Effects Based on Routine Replication

Influence of Environmental Management on Green Process Innovation: Comparison of Multiple Mediating Effects Based on Routine Replication

Opening the Black Box: The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Technological Innovation

A nonlinear relationship between corporate environmental performance and economic performance of green technology innovation: Moderating effect of government market‐based regulations

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