Indigenous R&amp;D, Technology Imports and Energy Consumption Intensity: Evidence from Industrial Sectors in China

Teng, Yuhua

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2012.01.307

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“…In this manner, analysis of the role various determinants play in the evolution of energy intensity will substantially benefits China by providing appropriate energy strategies to be put forward by the policy makers [5][6][7][8][9][10]. There are a number of researchers who have explored the driving forces behind China's energy intensity, and accordingly have put forward policy guidance for the reduction of energy intensity; in addition, they reached the conclusion that technological advancement constitutes one of the key determinants impacting energy intensity [11][12][13][14][15][16].…”

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The Impact of Foreign and Indigenous Innovations on the Energy Intensity of China’s Industries

Chen

Huang

et al. 2019

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China’s industrial sectors have an approximate consumption amounting to 70% of the aggregate power of the entire country. Investigating the driving forces of the decline in the energy intensity is essential for accelerating China’s conversion into a low-carbon economy. Nowadays, there has been no agreement as yet when it comes to the impacts of China’s industrial sectors on energy intensity. The current research work studies the impacts of key driving forces, in particular foreign as well as indigenous innovations, on China’s industrial energy intensity in 34 industrial sectors between 2000 and 2010. Linear and nonlinear analysis methodologies are put to use. The linear empirical findings show that indigenous innovation primarily contributes to driving down the industrial energy intensity across the sampling duration. The foreign innovations, which take the shape of FDI as well as imports, are seen as benefiting the decline in industrial energy intensity; on the other hand, exports ramp up the industrial energy intensity. An additional investigation, on the basis of the panel threshold framework, indicates that the impact of foreign innovations by means of openness as well as industrial energy intensity has an association with the technological absorptive potential. The empirical evidence puts forward some pivotal inferences for policymakers with regard to China’s declining industrial energy intensity—for instance, exploitation of the maximum benefit associated with the technology spillovers; in addition, it is important to take into consideration the attributes and scenarios that impact industrial energy intensity.

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The Impact of Foreign and Indigenous Innovations on the Energy Intensity of China’s Industries

Chen

Huang

et al. 2019

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“…intensity of firms. In fact literature has examples of the positive effect of domestic R&D on the energy intensity of firms (Teng, 2012;Aixiang, 2011) Domestic R&D would also improve a firm's capacity to absorb superior foreign technology flowing through FDI. RDis defined as the ratio of domestic R&D (in Rs.…”

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Analysing Factors Influencing Energy Intensity of Indian Cement Industry

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2020

Int. J. Eng. Tech. Mgmt. Res.

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India is a fast growing economy, with a considerable dependence on energy resources. Energy resources mainly comprise of fossil fuels that are highly emission intensive. In order to move towards sustainable development, it is important to reduce emissions. Since a sizable amount of emissions gets generated from the use of energy resources, it is essential to use energy more efficiently and reduce energy intensity. In India the industrial sector is the biggest consumer of energy and hence energy intensity of this sector has to be improved. To achieve this, Bureau of Energy Efficiency and Ministry of Power launched the Perform-Achieve-Trade scheme for 8 most energy intensive industries in India. This study was conducted to analyse the impact of the Perform-Achieve-Trade scheme on the energy intensity of the Indian Cement Industry, which was one of the eight energy intensive industries. Effect of other determinants like FDI, Domestic R&D, Imports and Exports were also estimated. The paper does a panel data study for the years 1997-2015. Results suggest that BEE’S PAT scheme has been successful for the Cement industry as the designated consumers have lower energy intensity on an average during the periods this scheme was announced and implemented

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“…The existing researches on the improvement of energy efficiency by international technology spillover have relatively adequate dimensions: the increase of enterprise research and development (R&D) expenditure (Shiell and Lyssenko, 2014;Wang and Feng, 2018;Saudi et al, 2019;Khan et al, 2021a), the improvement of enterprise absorptive capacity Bu et al, 2019), the adjustment of domestic industrial structure (Del Bo, 2013;Doytch and Narayan, 2016;Gui et al, 2017;Lei et al, 2017;Haug and Ucal, 2019), individual willingness (Irfan et al, 2021a;Irfan et al, 2021b;Irfan et al, 2021c), the increase of imitation capacity in competitor enterprise (Baltabaev, 2014;Merlevede et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2014), and green technology innovation (Ali et al, 2021;Nuvvula et al, 2022). Representative views are the demonstration effect of more advanced technologies caused by FDI and the reverse technology spillover of OFDI reflected in optimizing the allocation of resource (Chen et al, 2016;Wu et al, 2020b), the effect of export trade reflected in the export process on promoting R&D in order to achieve international quality standards (Oskarsson and Yetiv, 2013;Xin and Liu, 2013;Geng and Yao, 2015;Irfan et al, 2020a), the effect of import trade reflected in advanced product applications, and R&D promotion due to market competition (Teng, 2012;Ohlan, 2015;Peng and Cao, 2015).…”

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The International Spillover Effect of Import Trade on Energy Efficiency in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Evidence From China

2022

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China is in a transition period—its government has been expanding imports and pushing itself to shift from a world factory to a world market. One of the aims is to promote energy reform and ensure energy security. Taking the resource-based regions of China as objects, based on 2003–2017 panel data, this paper investigates energy efficiency loss by the stochastic frontier approach and the effects of different technical inefficiency items. Surprisingly, quantitative results show that 99.9% energy efficiency loss in these regions is caused by technical inefficiency (which had never been found and discussed in previous studies). However, this does not mean that China’s efforts to expand imports as a way to improve energy efficiency and energy security are undesirable. Instead, interestingly, it is import (−0.083***) rather than industrial structure (0.524***) that can significantly reduce energy efficiency loss. Then, it employs the counter-fact test to quantify the positive accelerating effect of human capital (average as high as 4.1%) as a key factor of absorptive capacity in the technology spillover. Lastly, it puts forward the corresponding policy suggestions in energy fields, to solve the problem effectively, especially the “comprehensive technology spreading center” and “innovative three-dimensional talent supplementary and flow mechanism.”

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Indigenous R&D, Technology Imports and Energy Consumption Intensity: Evidence from Industrial Sectors in China

Cited by 25 publications

References 3 publications

The Impact of Foreign and Indigenous Innovations on the Energy Intensity of China’s Industries

The Impact of Foreign and Indigenous Innovations on the Energy Intensity of China’s Industries

Analysing Factors Influencing Energy Intensity of Indian Cement Industry

The International Spillover Effect of Import Trade on Energy Efficiency in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Evidence From China

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