Study on the Spatial and Temporal Evolution Patterns of Green Innovation Efficiency and Driving Factors in Three Major Urban Agglomerations in China—Based on the Perspective of Economic Geography

Biao Hu, Kai Yuan, Tingyun Niu, Liang Zhang and Yuqiong Guan
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Biao Hu: School of Management, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China
Kai Yuan: School of Management, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China
Tingyun Niu: School of Public Affairs, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
Liang Zhang: School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Yuqiong Guan: Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing 100091, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 15, 1-28

Abstract: Sustainable development has become a global consensus, and green innovation is the key starting point, and it has become a ballast stone and stabilizer for regional ecological environmental protection and high-quality economic development. Based on GIS tools and multi-method models, this paper studies the spatio-temporal characteristics and influence mechanism of green innovation in three major urban agglomerations in China from 2010 to 2019 from the perspective of economic geography. The study found that: (1) the green innovation efficiency of the three major urban agglomerations in China is in a fluctuating upward trend as a whole, with obvious spatial disequilibrium; (2) from the spatial point of view, the characteristics of global spatial agglomeration distribution have positive spatial correlation, and the law of local spatial autocorrelation is obvious, and the spatio-temporal pattern transitions from “low efficiency, big difference” to “high efficiency, small difference” during the study period; (3) there are obvious spatial spillover and diffusion effects on the green innovation efficiency of the three major urban agglomerations in China as a whole. However, the spatial dependence of green innovation efficiency is inconsistent in China’s three major urban agglomerations; the YRD Urban region and the PRD Urban region show a positive impact, while the JJJ Urban region shows a negative impact; (4) the level of economic development, the operating environment of science and technology, and the guiding factors of government system function with significant differences and regional spatial heterogeneity on the efficiency of green innovation in the three major urban agglomerations in China.

Keywords: green innovation; three major urban agglomerations in China; spatio-temporal evolution; spatial effect; influencing factors (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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