Directed technological progress driven by diversified industrial structural change

Xiaoxiao Zhou, Zixuan Pan, Muhammad Shahbaz and Malin Song

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2020, vol. 54, issue C, 112-129

Abstract: This study probes the influence of industrial structural rationalization, upgrading, and ecologicalization on energy- and environment- directed technological progress by constructing a spatial auto-regression model using panel data of 30 Chinese provinces from 2000-2016. The empirical results show that directed technological progress differs based on multi-dimensional industrial structural changes. Specifically, at the national level, industrial structural rationalization can promote all kinds of directed technological progress. Industrial structural upgrading and ecologicalization promote fossil fuel efficiency and environmental efficiency. The effects of industrial structural change exhibit regional heterogeneity: in eastern China, industrial structural rationalization promotes all kinds of technological progress, and pollution abatement technology can be stimulated by all kinds of structural changes; in central China and western China, industrial structural upgrading can accelerate energy-saving and pollution abatement technological progress, while structural ecologicalization only promotes fossil energy efficiency. Meanwhile, industrial policies drive multi-dimensional industrial structural change and, thus, induce directed technological progress.

Keywords: Industrial structural change; Directed technological progress; Industrial policies; Regional heterogeneity; Spatial auto-regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2020.04.013

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