How to Improve Regional Innovation Quality From the Perspective of Green Development? Findings From Entropy Weight Method and Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Meili Zhang,Baizhou Li

doi:10.1109/access.2020.2973703

Abstract

Innovation is increasingly becoming the most crucial and effective way to tackle climate change and environmental pollution. Recently, innovation quality has received continuous attention from scholars, entrepreneurs and policymakers. It is necessary to measure innovation quality from the perspective of green development. Based on the statistics data of 30 provincial-level innovation systems in China, this study comprehensively evaluates regional innovation quality and identifies the configuration of factors which could lead to high regional innovation quality. Firstly, this study establishes an indicator system of measuring regional innovation quality which includes seven indicators from three aspects of technological, economic and ecological benefit of innovative activities, and entropy weight method is used to comprehensively evaluate regional innovation quality. The result reveals there are big differences between different regions in China in innovation quality. In terms of three economic regions in China, innovation quality in the eastern region is the highest, followed by the central region and the lowest in the western region. Then, fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis method is applied, which uncovers three configurations of factors that could lead to high regional innovation quality. Finally, the conclusion of this study provides policy pathways for improving regional innovation quality.

Highlights

Facing increasingly serious climate change and environmental pollution, every country in the world takes active measures to deal with them and seek for green development
The entropy weight method is an objective method for determining the weight of evaluating indicators, which has been widely used in many fields such as economy, engineering, finance and so on [31]
WEIGHT CALCULATION RESULT Before evaluating innovation quality in each regional innovation system, entropy weight method was used to give weight of seven indicators chosen in our research

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Introduction

Facing increasingly serious climate change and environmental pollution, every country in the world takes active measures to deal with them and seek for green development. Innovation is increasingly becoming the most effective way to achieve green development goals and is considered as the main drivers of economic growth as well [1], [2]. With the continuous improvement of technology level, the way of life and production is changed, making life more convenient, and productivity more efficient. Development, but the serious environmental problems like severe climate change, chemical pollution, disappearance of natural forests, and loss of biodiversity, have threatened the functional and structural integrity of ecosystems, which to an extent risk the collapse of human societies [3]. The quality of innovation deserves close attention, and how to improve innovation quality from the perspective of green development has become an increasingly important issue

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