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Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
Published in: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 7/2020

16-12-2019 | Original Article

Green innovation efficiency across China’s 30 provinces: estimate, comparison, and convergence

Authors: Xingle Long, Chuanwang Sun, Chao Wu, Bin Chen, Kofi Agyenim Boateng

Published in: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change | Issue 7/2020

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Abstract

Considering government and market failure of environmental regulation to combat increasing GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions, green innovation can mitigate pollution through production processes and clean production. This paper aims to investigate endogenous green innovation efficiency and its convergence across China’s 30 provinces from 2004 to 2014. Due to factor endowment heterogeneity, it is important to explore the convergence of green innovation efficiency among China’s different regions, which can compare green innovation efficiency spatially and propose scientific policy implications for regions with relatively weaker green innovation efficiency. Green innovation efficiency is evaluated through epsilon-based measure (EBM) global Malmquist-Luenberger (ML) in order to overcome the demerits of radial model and slacks-based measure (SBM). Panel unit root test is implemented to explore the convergence of green innovation efficiency across different provinces of China, which addresses the invalid inference of conventional β convergence. The empirical analysis revealed that green innovation efficiency in the east is the highest among four regions of China. Unit root test of panel data revealed that the northeast had the highest convergence among China’s four regions. It is important to enhance green innovation capacity, and expand knowledge spillover of green innovation technology in order to mitigate GHG emissions.
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Metadata
Title
Green innovation efficiency across China’s 30 provinces: estimate, comparison, and convergence
Authors
Xingle Long
Chuanwang Sun
Chao Wu
Bin Chen
Kofi Agyenim Boateng
Publication date
16-12-2019
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change / Issue 7/2020
Print ISSN: 1381-2386
Electronic ISSN: 1573-1596
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-019-09903-3

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