Does the Improvement of the Business Environment Improve the Innovation Efficiency of Enterprises? Evidence from the Listed Companies in China

Yan Han, Cheng Pan () and Fengjun Jin
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Yan Han: School of Economics and Management, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China
Cheng Pan: School of Economics and Management, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China
Fengjun Jin: Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 14, 1-25

Abstract: The quality of the business environment influences the speed and quality of economic development, and optimizing the business environment helps improve enterprises’ innovation ability. This article selects urban business environment and micro-enterprise data of Chinese listed companies from 2013 to 2019. It constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system for the urban business environment in China through the entropy method, exploring the specific path of promoting enterprise innovation ability through the business environment. The empirical results indicate that optimizing the business environment can encourage improving innovation efficiency in enterprises. A good business environment can increase government subsidies and enterprises’ Assumption of risk ability to promote technological innovation. Financing constraints and supply chain concentration can negatively enhance the driving effect of the business environment on enterprise innovation. Heterogeneity analysis indicates that the business environment is more conducive to stimulating the drive for technological innovation among state-owned enterprises, large-scale enterprises, and manufacturing enterprises. This article provides new insights into the relationship between the business environment and the innovation efficiency of enterprises.

Keywords: business environment; enterprise innovation efficiency; entropy method; mediation effect analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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