These studies have neglected that innovation activities in a country are generated by interactions among different sectors, especially manufacturing. The existing literature focusing on the influence of manufacturing on innovation indicated that an integrated pipeline of information technology, materials, and production process in manufacturing operation will provide manufacturers with the capability to bring renewed dynamism to this sector (Jagoda, Kiridena, & Lin, 2016). Manufacturing plays a critical role in innovative production by providing precision instruments and integrated systems that can efficiently transform investments in innovation into products (Cozzarin, 2016). However, studies rarely investigate the influence of manufacturing on the innovation process for emerging economies.This study provides an alternative model by characterizing the process of innovation via a three-stage model that emphasizes manufacturing effects. This model consists of human capital cultivation (Stage 1), manufacturing development (Stage 2), and innovation production (Stage 3). The dynamic network slacks-based measure (SBM), which can deal with multiple input/output variables of multidivisions in a long-term optimization, is employed to evaluate the performance of this three-stage model. This study also utilizes a truncated regression method to explore external factors, including enrollment rate in higher education, market size, intellectual property protection, and knowledge transfer (KT) that affect innovation efficiency. The empirical results may shed light on the importance of manufacturing to emerging economies in terms of improvement in the production of innovations. The structure of this study is presented as follows. Section 2 provides the literature review. Section 3 introduces the innovation model, data collection procedure, and research methodology. Section 4 addresses the experimental results. Section 5 provides managerial implications for innovation in emerging economies. Section 6 offers conclusions of this study.

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As domestic concerns on clean economic growth arise, promoting green economy has become an urgent issue for emerging countries that are facing serious environment problems in industrialization. Through international imitation, emerging countries have the opportunity to adopt clean techniques of developed countries. Because of different industrial structures, it is unachievable to learn the green technology across all fields. Previous studies consider that innovations could create green production models to improve the production capacity that reduces energy input and waste discharge. However, while evaluating emerging countries’ economic growth, the environment indicators were often neglected. Empirical investigation of the role of innovation in green economy’s growth is still rare. The first objective of this study is to adopt an integrated framework to investigate emerging countries’ green economy by considering environmental factors. Secondly, environmentally sensitive productivity growth index was employed to decompose the productivity progress of green economy into catch-up effect, innovation effect, and technical leadership to examine the role of innovation. Thirdly, implications were provided for the policy makers in relation to green growth. Thirty-nine emerging countries were chosen as samples, which were divided into America, Asia, and Europe according to their locations. We found that America is still an imitator in developing green economy. In contrast, Asia starts to transition to innovation, which has become another critical promoter for green growth. Europe was found to lead on the technology frontier because of proper industrial planning and technology accumulation. The progress to innovation and technical leadership could ensure a stable green growth in the future. This research could be a route to open up the possibility of extending current study of green economy.