The pressure of political promotion and renewable energy technological innovation: A spatial econometric analysis from China

Dongqin Cao, Can Peng and Guanglei Yang

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022, vol. 183, issue C

Abstract: The role of the pressure of political promotion in China's economic and social development has been affirmed. However, an investigation on whether the pressure of political promotion affects renewable energy technological innovation (RETI) and its mechanism in China is underdeveloped. Using the panel data of 30 Chinese provinces from 2007 to 2018, we investigate how the pressure of political promotion affects RETI with spatial econometric analysis. The results show that, first, the pressure of political promotion negatively affects RETI in both local and other regions. Second, there indeed exists spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the negative effect of the pressure of political promotion on RETI. For the temporal variation, the negative effect shows a decrease followed by an increase. For the spatial differences, the negative effect is greatest in the northeast region, followed by the central and eastern coastal regions, and the smallest in the western region. Finally, the spatial transmission mechanism analysis indicates that the decrease of pressure of political promotion can promote RETI by increasing the level of marketization. This study contributes to improving government governance and promoting renewable energy development.

Keywords: The pressure of political promotion; Renewable energy technological innovation; Geographically and temporally weighted regression; Spatial mediator model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162522004115
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:tefoso:v:183:y:2022:i:c:s0040162522004115

DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121888

Access Statistics for this article

Technological Forecasting and Social Change is currently edited by Fred Phillips

More articles in Technological Forecasting and Social Change from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().