Are cities venturing green? A global analysis of the impact of green entrepreneurship on city air pollution

Abstract

Situated at the intersection between environmental entrepreneurship and urban sustainability, our paper seeks to investigate the links between city-level green venture ecosystems and the ability of urban centres to reduce air pollution. Using a large dataset of 12,834 urban centres from around the world and their associated yearly average particulate matter (PM2.5), we show that an increase in the cumulative number of green start-ups drives the lowering of PM2.5 levels. Looking closely at the subsectors that drive the results, we observe that the urban centres which hosted increased numbers of innovators in smart grid technologies, energy efficiency and wind energy generation (the low carbon energy sector overall) also experienced a decrease in air pollution over the 2010–2019 period. Thus, our study is a global analysis of the environmental impact of green entrepreneurship on local air pollution.

Correlation between higher education support and future sustainable ecopreneurship drive among Javanese-centric students

“…Several studies have explored the concept of ecopreneurship in a variety of contexts, such as adoption behavior (Alvarez-Risco, Mlodzianowska, García-Ibarra, et al, 2021; Shabeeb Ali et al, 2023; Yi, 2021), international trends (Cojoianu et al, 2023), market demand (Lotfi et al, 2018;Soomro et al, 2023), and factors influencing the growth of Ecopreneurship or Green Entrepreneurship (Gast et al, 2017;Karimi & Nabavi Chashmi, 2019;Zhao et al, 2021). However, there are shortcomings in research that examined student intentions towards ecopreneurship in developing Asian regions such as Indonesia with the urgency of environmental issues, and there is no research that includes evaluating the support of higher education institutions with technological advances and business knowledge.…”