Abstract
The improvement of industrial green TFP is crucial for the sustainability of economy and environment. And the eco-innovation directly improves the industrial green TFP. However, there are few studies on the relation between eco-innovation and industrial green TFP. Based on the relevant data from 2006-2015 of 30 provinces in China, using SBM model this study firstly evaluates the industrial green TFP of each province by measuring the desirable output and undesirable output. Then the eco-innovation is measured by patent application quantity and further divided into breakthrough and incremental innovation by patent quality. The results show that eco-innovation improves the development of green industry in China. The promotion from breakthrough innovation is prominent. However, the incremental innovation restrains the development of green industry in China.
Highlights
With the increasing development of industrialization of China, the extensive economic development pattern has caused many problems on environment and resources
The eco-innovation is divided into breakthrough innovation and incremental innovation according to their contributions, and the former has a bigger significance for the transformation of production system and the green development [3,4]
This study provides an empirical analysis on the relation between eco-innovation and green development of industry based on the relevant data from 2006-2015 of 30 provinces in China, and differentiates the impact of breakthrough innovation and incremental innovation on green development of industry
Summary
With the increasing development of industrialization of China, the extensive economic development pattern has caused many problems on environment and resources. The green development of industry is necessary for the economic transformation in China. As far as the technical ability is concerned, the low-carbon technology is regarded as an important means of balancing the economic and environmental goals [2]. There are few studies connecting green development of industry and low-carbon technology. The eco-innovation is divided into breakthrough innovation and incremental innovation according to their contributions, and the former has a bigger significance for the transformation of production system and the green development [3,4]. This study provides an empirical analysis on the relation between eco-innovation and green development of industry based on the relevant data from 2006-2015 of 30 provinces in China, and differentiates the impact of breakthrough innovation and incremental innovation on green development of industry. This study has the following contributions: Firstly, the study uses Malmquist-Luenberger index model based on SBM
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