The influence of Chinese environmental regulation on corporation innovation and competitiveness

Zhao, Xin; Sun, B.Z.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.05.029

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“…Moreover, the extra cost in the process of preventing and controlling environmental pollution will increase the cost and then affect the firm's competitive advantage [14]. Zhao and Sun (2016) found that environmental regulation not only has a weak positive effect on enterprise innovation, but also has a negative effect on enterprise competitiveness [11]. In addition, although Leeuwen et al (2013) confirmed the "weak" Porter hypothesis, it did not confirm the "strong" Porter hypothesis in their study [10].…”

Section: Environmental Regulation and Green Technology Innovationmentioning

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“…Leeuwen et al (2013) and Zhao et al (2016) concluded that environmental regulation will restrain the efficiency of technological innovation and reduce the productivity of the manufacturing industry through empirical analysis [10,11]. Moreover, based on the analysis of externality theory, it is concluded that environmental regulation exerts constraints on the innovation behavior of enterprises, which results in the increase of environmental costs and the inhibition of enterprises' innovation enthusiasm.…”

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Environmental Regulation, Government R&D Funding and Green Technology Innovation: Evidence from China Provincial Data

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Abstract:The "environmental pollution-economic development" circle is a problem in the process of national sustainable development. As a complex concept of environmental protection and technology innovation, green technology innovation is the key to cracking this strange circle. This paper divides green technology innovation into green product innovation and green process innovation and measures green technology innovation based on the perspective of energy saving and emission reduction. Furthermore, we examine the effects of environmental regulation and government R&D funding on green technology innovation. The empirical findings are as follows: (1) from the dynamic point of view, we test whether there is a significant "U-shaped" relationship between environmental regulation and green technological innovation, and we find there exists an "inflection point" in the role of environmental regulation in green technology innovation, and China is at the stage of inhibition before the "inflection point"; (2) direct government funding and tax incentives can promote green technology innovation, but the promotion of government tax incentives to green technology innovation is not significant; (3) the interaction between environmental regulation and government R&D will promote green product innovation and inhibit green process innovation, which is closely related to the imbalance of environmental regulation intensity in energy saving and emission reduction. In addition, this paper also gives out three kinds of control variables (the level of regional development, the proportion of the regional manufacturing industry, and the development level of regional export-oriented economy) and presents their effects on green technology innovation.

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Section: Environmental Regulation and Green Technology Innovationmentioning

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Environmental Regulation, Government R&D Funding and Green Technology Innovation: Evidence from China Provincial Data

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“…The results show that environmental dynamics have a relatively strong moderation effect on the relationship between green product innovation and cost efficiency, and marginally moderate the relationship between green product innovation and firm profitability. By using Chinese pollution-intensive corporation panel data from 2011-2012, Zhao and Sun [34] established panel regression models to explore the influence of environmental regulation on corporation innovation and competitiveness. Guo et al [35] developed an integrated model to investigate the relationships among environmental regulation, technological innovation and regional green growth performance.…”

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Environmental Regulation, Green Innovation, and Industrial Green Development: An Empirical Analysis Based on the Spatial Durbin Model

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Environmental regulation and green innovation are two main fulcrums in the realization of green transition of industrial growth. However, few studies have done an empirical analysis of the impact of environmental regulation and green innovation on green development. Based on the theory of systematic interduality, regional industrial green development is regarded as a dynamic system composed of two subsystems: the state and the process subsystem. Using provincial industrial panel data from 2007-2015 and the spatial Durbin model under the unified analysis framework, this paper examines the role and mechanism of environmental regulation (divided into administrative environmental regulation, market-based environmental regulation, and public participation environmental regulation) in the impact of green innovation (divided into green product innovation and green craft innovation) on industrial green development. The results indicate a sharp fluctuating trend in China's overall industrial green development performance, and that China's 30 provinces can be divided into four categories, based on the development levels of two subsystems of industrial green development. There is a clear positive spatial correlation between the industrial green development performance in different provinces. Considering the impact of environmental regulation on industrial green development performance, different types of environmental regulation have different regional influences. Considering the impact of green innovation on industrial green development performance, in the absence of environmental regulation constraints, green product innovation shows a certain promotional role, and green craft innovation has a significant inhibitory effect. However, under environmental regulation constraints, market-based environmental regulation through the encouragement of green craft innovation rather than green product innovation achieves a positive impact on industrial green development.

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“…Ford, Steen, and Verreynne (2014) used Australian oil and gas industry panel data on the relationship between environmental regulation and the impact of various types of innovative empirical analysis, the researchers found that environmental regulations to promote a variety of products and services, including technical innovation and service innovation. Zhao and Sun (2015) found that flexible application of controlled environmental regulation has a significant positive impact on business innovation.…”

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The Difference Effect of Environmental Regulation on Two Stages of Technology Innovation in China’s Manufacturing Industry

Yuan¹,

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This paper divides technological innovation into two stages: technology development and technology transfer. Then the authors use the panel data of 28 manufacturing industries during [2003][2004][2005][2006][2007][2008][2009][2010][2011][2012] to test the econometric regression model for the industry of the sub stages, which is a regulation on technological innovation in the environment. The results show that: (1) environmental regulation has a significant role in promoting China's manufacturing technology research patent achievements, and technology into new products, and this indicated that "Porter hypothesis" in the manufacturing sector has been verified; (2) R&D and transfer expenditure have a positive impact on technological innovation. Finally, the authors put forward the corresponding policy recommendations for industry of the environmental regulation on the impact of technological innovation in phases.

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The influence of Chinese environmental regulation on corporation innovation and competitiveness

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Environmental Regulation, Government R&D Funding and Green Technology Innovation: Evidence from China Provincial Data

Environmental Regulation, Government R&D Funding and Green Technology Innovation: Evidence from China Provincial Data

Environmental Regulation, Green Innovation, and Industrial Green Development: An Empirical Analysis Based on the Spatial Durbin Model

The Difference Effect of Environmental Regulation on Two Stages of Technology Innovation in China’s Manufacturing Industry

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Environmental Regulation, Government R&D Funding and Green Technology Innovation: Evidence from China Provincial Data

Environmental Regulation, Government R&D Funding and Green Technology Innovation: Evidence from China Provincial Data

Environmental Regulation, Green Innovation, and Industrial Green Development: An Empirical Analysis Based on the Spatial Durbin Model

The Difference Effect of Environmental Regulation on Two Stages of Technology Innovation in China&rsquo;s Manufacturing Industry

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