Can foreign trade and technological innovation affect green development: evidence from countries along the Belt and Road

Xu, Yingzhi; Dong, Biying; Chen, Zihao

doi:10.1007/s10644-021-09337-5

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“…Green development is a model innovation based on traditional development. It is a new development model that takes environmental protection as an important pillar to achieve sustainable development under the constraints of ecological environment capacity and resource carrying capacity [ 4 ]. The three paths are progressive and closely linked.…”

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How to Evaluate the Green and High-Quality Development Path? An FsQCA Approach on the China Pilot Free Trade Zone

Zhou

Zhang

Fei

2022

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In today’s world, green development has become an important trend, and many countries regard the development of green industry as an important measure to promote economic restructuring. Green development is consistent with sustainable development in ideology. China’s economy is in the stage of high-quality development. As an important foundation for China’s external economic development, the free trade zone can play a good role in promoting its green and high-quality development. Based on the data of 18 free trade zones in China in 2020, this paper explores the green and high-quality development path of the China Pilot Free Trade Zone. Firstly, the green development index is constructed according to the existing research and experience, and then the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis method is used to evaluate the green and high-quality development path. The results show that the development of pilot free trade zones is not the result of a single condition but the result of a combination of green policy effectiveness, foreign investment participation, green production growth rate, and other conditions. Combined with the green and high-quality development path, this paper further provides enlightenment for the development of the China Pilot Free Trade Zone.

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How to Evaluate the Green and High-Quality Development Path? An FsQCA Approach on the China Pilot Free Trade Zone

Zhou

Zhang

Fei

2022

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“…According to Hu and Liu (2021), the impact of STFP on the transformation and upgrading of industrial structure is positive in the eastern region, negative in the central region, and non-existent in the western region. Xu et al (2021a) found that the pilot policy has the greatest positive impact on economic development in the eastern region, followed by the central region, but has no such impact in the western region. Many other researchers have analyzed the impact of digital finance on green innovation (Cao et al, 2021;.…”

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“…Second, many studies have investigated the influencing factors of green development, including political, economic, technological, and natural factors. Political factors mainly include government support (Guo and Liu, 2022) and environmental regulations (Zou and Zhang, 2022); economic factors mainly include financial development (Yuan et al, 2019), level of openness (Huang and Liu, 2021), and industrial structure (Xie and Li, 2021); the main technological factor is innovation (Xu et al, 2021a); and natural factors primarily include resource structure (Fong et al, 2022) and energy consumption (Moutinho et al, 2017).…”

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Effect of Science and Technology Finance Policy on Urban Green Development in China

Gao

Song

Wen

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Green sustainable development is a major challenge faced by countries worldwide. Against the strategic background of innovation-driven development, studying the impact of science and technology finance policy (STFP) on urban green development is of great practical significance. Based on urban panel data from 2003 to 2019, this study systematically examines whether and how STFP affects urban green development in China using the difference-in-differences (DID) method. The empirical results show that STFP has significantly stimulated the urban green development level, and the effect of policy implementation has increased first and then decreased over time. The findings remain robust when using propensity score matching DID to avoid selection bias and other factors that may interfere with the estimation results. Additionally, technological innovation and green innovation are essential channels for STFP to improve urban green development. The impact of STFP is found to vary by region and by the level of urban innovation. Specifically, the policy effect is more pronounced in midwestern and high-innovation cities but less obvious in eastern and low-innovation cities. In conclusion, this study provides city-level empirical evidence from China for an in-depth understanding of the green economy effect of STFP. It also provides theoretical guidance and policy references for accelerating the green transition in the context of sustainable development.

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“…Entrepreneurial actions can improve mutual trust between members of the organization, the organizational actions become more efficient (Kacperska and Łukasiewicz, 2020 ; Sedrine et al, 2020 ). In addition, through their social network relationships, entrepreneurs can also overcome resource constraints and gain access to more resources and information (Bauernschuster et al, 2010 ), which leads to knowledge spillovers and collective learning between the agglomerated enterprises (Crespo et al, 2022 ), reduces the cost of technological innovation, and further improves productivity and boosts economic growth (Xu et al, 2021 ). Entrepreneurship also enables enterprises to take greater social responsibility (Chen et al, 2021 ; Biggeri et al, 2022 ).…”

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Corporate Co-Agglomeration and Green Economy Efficiency in China

Zhu

Yang

2022

Front. Psychol.

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This paper uses panel OLS, IV, and system GMM methods to empirically study the effects of manufacturing and producer service corporate co-agglomeration on green economy efficiency (GEE) in China. Chinese panel data from 2000 to 2019 are collected to assess the GEE and co-agglomeration degrees. The regression results show that there is an “inverted U-shaped” relationship between co-agglomeration and GEE. However, regional heterogeneity is found in the effects of corporate co-agglomeration on GEE. The mediating analysis indicates that corporate co-agglomeration could increase GEE through business entrepreneurship and innovation entrepreneurship. Variables such as transportation infrastructure, human capital, foreign direct investment, and environmental regulations are also found to have an elevating effect on GEE, whereas local fiscal expenditure on environmental protection has little effect. The findings in this paper indicate that entrepreneurship plays an important role in the process of co-agglomeration impacting GEE which differs in different regions and thus provide references for corporate and regional sustainable development.

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Can foreign trade and technological innovation affect green development: evidence from countries along the Belt and Road

Cited by 30 publications

References 31 publications

How to Evaluate the Green and High-Quality Development Path? An FsQCA Approach on the China Pilot Free Trade Zone

How to Evaluate the Green and High-Quality Development Path? An FsQCA Approach on the China Pilot Free Trade Zone

Effect of Science and Technology Finance Policy on Urban Green Development in China

Corporate Co-Agglomeration and Green Economy Efficiency in China

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