Impacts of digital government on regional eco-innovation: Moderating role of dual environmental regulations

Shuliang Zhao, Linjiao Teng, Vincent Ekow Arkorful and Hui Hu

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2023, vol. 196, issue C

Abstract: Regional eco-innovation can change the extensive development mode and promote the sustainable development of the economy and society. In the background of digital government construction, the external environment of regional eco-innovation has changed. In this study, the panel data of 125 prefecture-level cities in China from 2013 to 2020 are used to construct a fixed-effect model for empirical analysis by sorting out the relationships among digital government, regional eco-innovation, and dual environmental regulation. The following conclusions are drawn: First, digital government mainly promotes the improvement of regional eco-innovation through digital society and digital citizenship. Second, formal and informal environmental regulations have remarkable positive effects on regional eco-innovation. Third, informal environmental regulation has a positive moderating effect on digital administration and regional eco-innovation and a positive moderating effect on digital citizenship and regional eco-innovation. Fourth, formal environmental regulation cannot moderate the relationship between digital government and regional eco-innovation. This study can give priority to promoting the digital government to serve and play a role in ecological governance and environmental information disclosure, so as to provide policy opinions for the government when issuing documents supporting the improvement of regional eco-innovation, and promote the realization of a more reasonable allocation of innovation resources.

Keywords: Regional eco-innovation; Digital government; Formal environmental regulations; Informal environmental regulations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122842

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