The Spatial Interaction Effect of Environmental Regulation on Urban Innovation Capacity: Empirical Evidence from China

Ruomeng Zhou, Yunsheng Zhang and Xincai Gao
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Ruomeng Zhou: School of Economics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Yunsheng Zhang: School of Economics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Xincai Gao: School of Economics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 9, 1-19

Abstract: This paper applies a spatial econometric model to measure the impact of environmental regulation on urban innovation capacity from a spatial interaction perspective by using panel data from 41 cities in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration from 2009 to 2018. The study findings are as follows: first, environmental regulation has a significant positive impact on urban innovation capacity and a significant positive spatial spillover effect; second, innovation capacity has significant positive spatial dependence; third, city informatization level, government expenditures on science and technology, city economic scale, and industrial development level all positively affect the innovation capacity of neighboring cities and all have positive spatial spillover effects on the innovation capacity of neighboring cities; and finally, city expansion reduces the innovation capacity of a city and has negative spatial spillover effects on the innovation capacity of neighboring cities.

Keywords: urban innovation capacity; environmental regulation; spatial interaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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