Green Technology Innovation under China’s New Development Concept: The Effects of Policy-Push and Demand-Pull on Renewable Energy Innovation

作者：Huang Yanghua , Cui Jingbo , Lin Shen 来源：本文发表于《Social Sciences in China 》24 Mar 2023 时间：2023-07-10

　　Abstract：Green technology innovation meets the dual expectation of innovative development and green development perspectives. Under the canonical demand-pull and policy-push theories, a long-term mechanism for green technology innovation could be formed through upstream policy push and downstream demand-pull. Leveraging China’s regional carbon emission trading scheme pilots as a quasi-natural experiment, this paper examines the policy-push and demand-pull effects on innovation in renewable energy patents. The data pertain to the city-level renewable energy patents from 2000 to 2020. Based upon the triple difference-in-difference method, results suggest that both policy-push and demand-pull factors exert positive effects on innovation. This paper further explores the practical and theoretical implications of green technology innovation under the new development perspective.

　　Keywords：new development perspectivegreen technology innovationdemand pullpolicy pushcarbon emission trading

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