Impact and mechanism analysis of smart city policy on urban innovation: Evidence from China

Wang, Jinxiu; Deng, Kun

doi:10.1016/j.eap.2021.12.006

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“…First, the SCP has a positive impact on innovation input and output. Secondly, we find that SCP can aggregate talents and accelerate knowledge flows, which is consistent with the findings of Wang and Deng ( 2022 ) based on the city level. This is also consistent with the Porter hypothesis that external environmental pressures will stimulate firms to innovate, validating the validity of the Porter hypothesis at smart city policy and micro level in China.…”

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confidence: 91%

The impact of smart city pilots on corporate total factor productivity

Chen

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The existing literature on smart city pilots mainly focuses on the city level and rarely addresses the firm level. This paper assesses the impact of smart city pilot policy (SCP) on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) and explores the impact of SCP under different heterogeneities as well as the mechanisms of action of the SCP. The LP approach is used in this paper to measure firms’ TFP, and the impact of SCP is analyzed by the DID model with firms’ panel data from 2009 to 2019 as research objects. First, it was found that the SCP can significantly increase the TFP of firms (0.041). Second, through heterogeneity analysis, we found that SCP can strengthen the monopoly position of monopolistic firms and state-owned enterprises. Moreover, the SCP can also alleviate the development imbalance of TFP between firms in coastal and non-coastal areas. In addition, SCP can significantly improve TFP of heavy polluting enterprises. Finally, we find that the important ways for SCP to improve firms’ TFP is increasing investment in technological innovation, talent agglomeration, attracting financing, improving resource allocation efficiency, and digital transformation. The study provides unique insights for policy makers and business managers in China and other emerging countries to enhance TFP and achieve corporate sustainable development.

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confidence: 91%

The impact of smart city pilots on corporate total factor productivity

Chen

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…Lincang, Chenzhou and Guilin have the least intangible capital per capita among the NIDZs, and low advanced produced capital, resulting in weak production efficiency and sustainable development potential. These cities need to strengthen investment in intangible and human capital to improve the innovation environment and thus gradually generate agglomeration effect of innovation factors (Lao et al., 2021; J. Wang & Deng, 2022).…”

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Sustainable Development Pathways for Chinese Cities: An Assessment of the Advanced Inclusive Wealth Index

Xue

Cheng

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Earth's Future

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The inclusive wealth index (IWI) is a stock metric proposed internationally in recent years to measure a region's sustainable development potential. To explore sustainability more comprehensively in this context, this paper improves the inclusive wealth (IW) system proposed by the United Nations Environment Programme by extending the definition of intangible capital and refining the classification of different types of capital. We then used the advanced IWI to investigate the changes in per capita IW and its capital composition in China's 10 National Sustainable Development Agenda Innovation Demonstration Zones from 2010 to 2019, and proposed sustainable development pathways for Chinese cities. Our results underline the fact that IW and capital structure across different types of cities is highly variable. The growth of IW per capita in Shenzhen, an international metropolis, mainly depends on advanced produced capital and intangible capital. For Ordos, however—a resource‐rich “energy city”—the per capita IW is driven by ordinary produced capital and restricted by non‐renewable natural capital, thus showing a low level of sustainability. Through its consideration of four kinds of capital, this study also points out the inequality of human capital between urban‐rural and male‐female groups, and demonstrates how increasing educational attainment helps to promote the transfer of human capital between regions and sectors. In general, a strong potential for sustainable development is linked to the promotion of highly educated human capital, advanced produced capital and intangible capital, while the ecosystem service value of natural capital is also key.

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“…Referring to existing literature (Guo et al. 2022 ; Wang and Deng 2022 ), the mediating effect models are as follows: where is an intermediary variable, representing digital technology development ( ) or public services ( ). Model ( 2 ) is first used to verify the driving effect of smart city construction on digital technology development or public services.…”

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“… 2015 ; Caragliu et al. 2011 ; Caragliu and Del Bo 2012 ) and attract high-quality talents (Wang and Deng 2022 ). By providing high-quality of life in terms of security, comfort, convenience, and entertainment infrastructure, smart cities become natural environments for creative talents to gather, learn, and share (Jiang et al.…”

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Effects of smart city construction on employment: mechanism and evidence from China

2023

Empir Econ

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Based on the first batch of smart city pilots in China, this paper systematically investigates the impact of smart city construction on urban employment and employment structure, and its influence mechanism and urban heterogeneity are explored using the difference-in-differences (DID) model. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) Smart city construction significantly promotes urban employment, especially employment in the secondary and tertiary industries. (2) Digital technology development and public services are important mechanisms for smart city construction to improve urban employment. (3) There was heterogeneity among Chinese cities, with the employment promotion effect of smart city construction is primarily reflected in cities located in the eastern and central regions, medium cities, large cities, as well as cities with higher levels of financial development, human capital, and informatization. (4) Through different impacts on various sectors, smart city construction promotes the transfer of employment to the service sector and optimizes the urban employment structure. Conclusions enrich the academic community’s understanding of the development and construction of smart cities and provide enlightenment and reference for the formulation and promulgation of relevant supporting policies.

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Impact and mechanism analysis of smart city policy on urban innovation: Evidence from China

Cited by 66 publications

References 15 publications

The impact of smart city pilots on corporate total factor productivity

The impact of smart city pilots on corporate total factor productivity

Sustainable Development Pathways for Chinese Cities: An Assessment of the Advanced Inclusive Wealth Index

Effects of smart city construction on employment: mechanism and evidence from China

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