Can Green Innovation and New Urbanization Be Synergistic Development? Empirical Evidence from Yangtze River Delta City Group in China

Lindong Ma, Yuanxiao Hong, Xihui Chen and Xiaoyong Quan
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Lindong Ma: School of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China
Yuanxiao Hong: Xingzhi College, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
Xihui Chen: School of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China
Xiaoyong Quan: Xingzhi College, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 10, 1-21

Abstract: Green innovation has become the mainstream of the era, and new urbanization is an inevitable choice in China’s urbanization development. Focusing on the topics of green innovation and new urbanization, much work has been done to analyze their influencing factors separately, while the relationship between the two remains to be explored. This paper selects the representative indicators to study the new urbanization and green innovation of the Yangtze River Delta city group from the perspective of the whole and individual cities, in terms of spatiotemporal evolution traits, by using the SBM, entropy method, coupling model, spatial econometric and geographical detector. The results reveal the following: (1) there is a synergistic effect between green innovation and new urbanization development, and the role has been increasing; (2) green innovation and new urbanization present positive spatial autocorrelation and regional agglomeration; (3) in the detection of driving factors, economic development > social conditions > natural resources; most groups (40/66) of factor interactions present nonlinear enhancement, and the digital economy factor accounts for the largest proportion. Finally, according to the findings, we offer a suggestion and a conclusion.

Keywords: green innovation; new urbanization; coupling model; degree of coupling coordination; spatiotemporal pattern; Yangtze River Delta city group (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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