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Influence of Technological Innovation on Regional Green Development Efficiency

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Under the background of Green Development, the function direction of technological innovation to green development efficiency, which includes economy, resources and environment, needs to be observed by demonstration. In this paper, the green development efficiency of 30 provinces (cities and districts) in China from 2004 to 2017 is measured and its intertemporal changes, regional differences of green development efficiency are analyzed by using the super efficiency SBM model, further through theoretical analysis and empirical study, the influence of technological innovation on regional green development efficiency and its impact mechanism are investigated. The influence mechanisms of the technological innovation on green development efficiency are clarified and empirically tested by spatial econometric models from the perspectives of the growth sources and quantitative analysis. The results show that during the observation period, the green development efficiency in China exhibits a U-shaped variation, but there are huge regional differences with the obvious polarization in Eastern and Midwestern regions, and that technological innovation has some effect in promoting the region green development efficiency, but not significant enough, which are heterogeneous according to the time periods and regions.

Published in International Journal of Economy, Energy and Environment (Volume 7, Issue 1)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijeee.20220701.11
Page(s) 1-12
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Keywords

Technological Innovation, Green Development Efficiency, Spatial Durbin Model, Meta-US-SBM Model

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  • Department of Finance and Economics, Taiyuan University, Taiyuan, China

  • School of Economics and Management, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan, China

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