Innovation and sustainable: Can innovative city improve energy efficiency?

Yang, Jingyi; Xiong, Gang; Shi, Daqian

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2022.103761

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“…ICP is an important policy proposed by China based on the increasingly competitive international situation (Yang J et al, 2022). This is to enhance the innovation capacity and realize the national development plan.…”

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Assessing the effectiveness of innovative city pilots in improving urban carbon emission performance: A spatial difference-in-difference approach

Long

Tan³

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Front. Environ. Sci.

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Existing studies have focused on the impact of innovation on carbon emission performance but ignore the importance of government support for innovation. To overcome this challenge, this paper adopts a spatial difference-in-difference (DID) model to assess the impact of government support for innovation on urban carbon emission performance based on a quasi-natural experiment of innovative city pilots (ICP) in China. Using the high-resolution carbon emission data of 1 km × 1 km for 238 cities from 2008 to 2019 in China, this paper employees an extended stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) model to measure urban carbon emission performance. Our findings indicate that ICP implementation leads to a 1.3% improvement in local carbon emission performance. Meanwhile, there is a significant spatial spillover effect of ICP implementation, with a 3.3% improvement in the carbon performance of the surrounding areas. The results of the mechanism analysis suggest that government innovation support affects carbon emission performance by promoting total factor productivity improvement, green innovation, and industrial upgrading. Further analysis shows that ICP has the strongest impact on carbon performance in the eastern region, and the impact is stronger for large cities and resource-dependent cities. Finally, the paper carries out a series of robustness tests to ensure the reliability of the analytical results, including parallel trend tests, placebo tests and re-estimation of different methods. Based on the findings, this paper proposes feasible policy recommendations in terms of continuous promotion of government innovation support, regional cooperation and differentiated innovation support formulation.

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Assessing the effectiveness of innovative city pilots in improving urban carbon emission performance: A spatial difference-in-difference approach

Long

Tan³

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…us, technological innovation has become a vital means for countries and cities to solve economic problems and occupy development opportunities under the wave of the new technological revolution [4,5]. Recent findings have confirmed that the city serves as the main location for scientific and technological innovation activities, and the increase in innovation capability is helpful in improving energy efficiency [6]. Improving energy utilization efficiency can also improve urban innovation capabilities [7].…”

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Relationship between Urban Innovation Capability and Energy Utilization Efficiency: An Empirical Study of 281 Prefecture‐Level Cities in China

Zhao

2022

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Following a dynamic nonlinear perspective, this study explores the relationship between urban innovation capability and energy utilization efficiency by employing the Panel Vector Autoregression (PVAR) and Dynamic Panel Threshold Regression (DPTR) methods. Using the 2003–2020 panel data of 281 prefecture-level cities in China, this study confirms that energy utilization efficiency improves owing to the improvement of urban innovation capability. Depending on the characteristics of the city, such as population density, industrial structure, and environmental pollution, high energy utilization efficiency in the early stages of city development may help or hinder the improvement of energy utilization efficiency in the later stages. The enhancement in urban innovation capability has failed to improve energy utilization efficiency and has adversely affected cities with a low population density or weak secondary industrial foundation. However, in cities with a high population density or proportion of secondary industry, the improvement in innovation capability significantly increases the efficiency of energy utilization. In addition, the positive effect that urban innovation capability has on energy utilization efficiency is higher in low-pollution cities than in high-pollution cities.

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“…The innovative city pilot program focuses on advancing urban innovation, industrial innovation, and enterprise innovation, accelerating transformation of the economic mode and attaining sustainable development. 1 The innovative city pilot policy is the first innovation policy that take city as basic units to spur innovation (Yang et al, 2022). Beijing and Shenzhen took the lead in introducing the concept of innovative cities in 2005.…”

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“…. Other scholars argue that the resource curse phenomenon lies on the type of resources and the management style of local governments(Yang et al, 2022) Cheng et al (2021). found that resource-based cities can effectively avert resources curse and reach ecological and economic sustainability by increasing investment in science and technology.Based on the above analysis, we divide the sample cities into resource-based cities and nonresource-based cities according to the National Sustainable Development Plan for Resource-based Cities (2013-2020).…”

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Innovative urban design for low‐carbon sustainable development: Evidence from China's innovative city pilots

Jiang

Chen

2022

Sustainable Development

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Innovation and sustainable: Can innovative city improve energy efficiency?

Cited by 58 publications

References 63 publications

Assessing the effectiveness of innovative city pilots in improving urban carbon emission performance: A spatial difference-in-difference approach

Assessing the effectiveness of innovative city pilots in improving urban carbon emission performance: A spatial difference-in-difference approach

Relationship between Urban Innovation Capability and Energy Utilization Efficiency: An Empirical Study of 281 Prefecture‐Level Cities in China

Innovative urban design for low‐carbon sustainable development: Evidence from China's innovative city pilots

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