Abstract
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.
Highlights
China has enjoyed rapid economic growth since 1978
The estimation results indicate that the green development spatial coefficient in models (2) and (3) are positive, which indicates that there is a significant positive spatial correlation and spatial spillover effect in the industrial green development performance among provinces
The direct and total effects of the interaction items MER * GPI are significantly positive, while the indirect effect is positive but not significant. This demonstrates that, in the restraint of market-based environmental regulation, green product innovation has not played a positive role in promoting industrial green development performance
Summary
China has enjoyed rapid economic growth since 1978. this growth comes at the expense of resources and with increased environmental costs [1,2,3,4]. China has the highest energy consumption and the highest carbon emissions in the developing countries [5]. Due to the extensive development mode adopted by industry in China for a long time, the massive resource consumption and environmental pollution caused by it have approached the environmental load limit [6]. According to the calculations of Chen [7], during the 30 years of reform and opening up, industry, which accounts for 40.1% of China’s GDP, consumed 67.9% of the country’s energy and emitted 83.1% of the country’s total carbon dioxide. Green development is a mode of pursuing economic growth and development while preventing environmental deterioration, biodiversity loss and unsustainable use of natural resources [11]
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