Knowledge Externalities and Knowledge Spillovers in Social Networks: The Case of Izmir Metalwork Industrial District

Cao

et al. 2021

MEQ

PurposeEnvironmental regulation policy and cleaner production technology innovation are the key links to achieve sustainable economic development. This paper tests the impact of Two Control Zone (TCZ) environmental regulation policy on cleaner production technology innovation and explains the heterogeneity effect between them from the perspective of regional pollution intensity and R&D investment scale.Design/methodology/approachThis paper takes TCZ policy as an environmental regulation policy and collects the patent data related to coal desulfurization cleaner production technology innovation in prefecture-level cities from 1994 to 2002 in China. This paper also tests the relationship between TCZ environmental regulation policy and cleaner production technology innovation based on difference in difference (DID) model. Take regional R&D investment scale and pollution intensity as category variables and analyze the heterogeneity effect of TCZ environmental regulation policy on cleaner production technology innovation based on difference-in-difference-in-difference (DDD) model.FindingsTCZ environmental regulation policy effectively promotes China's cleaner production technology innovation, but it is more conducive to cleaner production technology innovation in heavy pollution areas. With the increasing of R&D investment scale, the positive effect of TCZ environmental regulation policy on cleaner production technology innovation is stronger.Research limitations/implicationsOn the basis of this study, the authors should further explore the regulatory factors of the relationship between TCZ environmental regulation policy and cleaner production technology innovation and further expand the research object, so as to make the research conclusions more practical and instructive.Originality/valueThis paper tests the impact of TCZ environmental regulation policy on cleaner production technology innovation based on the prefecture city level data and DID model, and it handles the endogenous problem caused by the missing variables and provides the accurate conclusions. Moreover, this paper examines the heterogeneity effect of TCZ environmental regulation policy on cleaner production innovation from regional R&D investment scale and pollution intensity two hands and expands the existing theoretical research.

Section: Policy Background and Theoretical Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The cleaner production technology innovation effect of environmental regulation policy: evidence from China

Cao

et al. 2021

MEQ

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Do we really know the predictors of competence-creating R&D subsidiaries? Uncovering the mediation of dual network embeddedness

Achcaoucaou

Miravitlles

Darder

2017

Many changes have been recorded in the R&D role played by the foreign subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNCs), to the extent that today many are recognised as key players in the development of firm innovation-related competences. Given this trend, we examine the predictors of a subsidiary's R&D role as a competence-creating contributor to the MNC's long-term success. Traditionally, the predictors of subsidiaries' R&D roles have been sought in the specific features of the internal corporate and external host-country environments. However, we find that favourable corporate-and country-level conditions may not necessarily lead to the enhancement of a subsidiary's R&D role unless dual embeddedness-that is, the subsidiary's embeddedness in the knowledge networks of the MNC (internal embeddedness) and in those of the host country (external embeddedness)-is well established. The main contribution of this paper is the development of a multiple mediation model that disentangles the way in which corporate and host-country environments interrelate with a subsidiary's dual embeddedness in the expected configuration of its competence-creating R&D role. In developing the model, we use the PLS-SEM method to estimate the relationship between these elements and, eventually, to forecast the subsidiary's competence-creating R&D role. The proposed model should help managers shape the fate of the subsidiary's R&D strategic role.

Akademik Araştırmalar Ve Çalışmalar Dergisi (AKAD)

Türk İmalat Sanayi̇ndeki̇ Uzmanlaşmanin Teknoloji̇ Düzeyi̇ne Göre Bölgesel Bi̇r Anali̇zi̇

Yolchi¹,

Akseki

2018

Bu çalışmanın amacı Türk imalat sanayinin teknoloji düzeyine göre bölgesel uzmanlaşmasını İstatistiki Bölge Birimi Sınıflandırması düzey 2 (İBBS 2 düzeyinde) 2009-2014 dönemi için yoğunlaşma oranı ve yerelleşme eğrisi yardımıyla imalat sanayindeki istihdam açısından analiz etmektir. Ampirik bulgulara göre Türk imalat sanayinde ileri ve orta-ileri teknoloji düzeylerinde bölgesel uzmanlaşma yüksektir. Türkiye'nin batı bölgelerinin doğu bölgelerine oranla ileri ve orta-ileri teknolojilerde daha yüksek yoğunlaşma katsayılarına sahip olduğu görülmektedir. Ayrıca metropol bölgelere komşu olan bölgelerin çoğunda yoğunlaşma katsayıları özellikle ileri ve orta ileri teknolojili imalat sanayinde artmıştır.