TY - JOUR
T1 - Innovation and green total factor productivity in China
T2 - a linear and nonlinear investigation
AU - Liu, Siming
AU - Hou, Peng
AU - Gao, Yingkun
AU - Tan, Aaron
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities” (2019RW21) and “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities” in UIBE (CXTD11-05) for financial support. Acknowledgments
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/2/1
Y1 - 2022/2/1
N2 - The empirical conclusions regarding the influence of innovation on green total factor productivity (GTFP) are relatively mixed. Based on China's provincial panel data from 1999 to 2015, this paper uses the number of patent applications to measure regional innovation capacity, and comprehensively examines the linear and nonlinear effects of innovation on GTFP. Our results show that innovation plays a leading role in promoting GTFP growth in China in general. However, two different types of patents, invention patents and non-invention patents, have heterogeneous impacts on China's green growth under the difference of innovation level. Additionally, the relationship between innovation and China's GTFP also differs significantly before and after 2009. A further nonlinear effect analysis based on a panel threshold model reveals that the impact of innovation on GTFP is higher with the rise of human capital, knowledge stock and financial development. However, only the appropriate environmental regulation stringency is conducive to promoting the influence of innovation on China’s green growth. Overall, our findings contribute to a better understanding regarding the impact of innovation on GTFP in China.
AB - The empirical conclusions regarding the influence of innovation on green total factor productivity (GTFP) are relatively mixed. Based on China's provincial panel data from 1999 to 2015, this paper uses the number of patent applications to measure regional innovation capacity, and comprehensively examines the linear and nonlinear effects of innovation on GTFP. Our results show that innovation plays a leading role in promoting GTFP growth in China in general. However, two different types of patents, invention patents and non-invention patents, have heterogeneous impacts on China's green growth under the difference of innovation level. Additionally, the relationship between innovation and China's GTFP also differs significantly before and after 2009. A further nonlinear effect analysis based on a panel threshold model reveals that the impact of innovation on GTFP is higher with the rise of human capital, knowledge stock and financial development. However, only the appropriate environmental regulation stringency is conducive to promoting the influence of innovation on China’s green growth. Overall, our findings contribute to a better understanding regarding the impact of innovation on GTFP in China.
KW - Innovation
KW - Green TFP
KW - Patent
KW - Heterogeneous effects
KW - Nonlinear effects
KW - Panel threshold model
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U2 - 10.1007/s11356-020-11436-1
DO - 10.1007/s11356-020-11436-1
M3 - Article
VL - 29
SP - 12810
EP - 12831
JO - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
JF - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
SN - 0944-1344
IS - 9
ER -