Non-linear effects of environmental regulation and innovation – Spatial interaction evidence from the Yangtze River Delta in China.

Autor: Zhou, Qian1 (AUTHOR) zhouqian200912@163.com, Song, Yanan2 (AUTHOR) songyananapril@163.com, Wan, Ningna3 (AUTHOR) wanningna@163.sufe.edu.cn, Zhang, Xiaoling1,4,5 (AUTHOR) xiaoling.zhang@cityu.edu.hk
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Zdroj: Environmental Science & Policy. Dec2020, Vol. 114, p263-274. 12p.
Abstrakt: • This paper investigates the spatial interaction of environmental regulation in the Yangtze River Delta. • Examine spatial relationship between environmental regulation and innovation taking into account logistics matrix. • Discover inverted U relationship between formal environmental regulation and innovation. • Discover that the spatial self-selection of environmental regulation is not conducive to innovation development. • Found that environmental regulation affects innovation through spillover effect and industrial structure effect. Currently, China's environmental regulations are unprecedentedly strict. At the same time, China is emphasizing innovation development in the process of industrial upgrading. However, previous literature has not reached a consensus on the relationship between the environmental regulation and innovation. This paper takes the Yangtze River Delta, the most developed region in China, as an example, and uses the spatial econometric model based on the geographic matrix, economic matrix, and comprehensive relevance matrix of logistics enterprises to fully examine the relationship between urban environmental regulation and innovation development under different spatial interaction perspectives. The results show that: the relation between formal environmental regulation and innovation is inverse U-shaped. Spatial self-selection of environmental regulation in the Yangtze River Delta region weakens the enthusiasm of innovation to a certain extent. This paper argues that the main mechanisms through which environmental regulation affects innovation development are spillover effects and industrial structure effects. Finally, the paper proposes corresponding policy recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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