Increasing research and development (R&D) investment is the key to the sustainable development of the manufacturing industry. With the development of financialization, manufacturing enterprises allocate greater funds to the financial field, which...
This study investigates whether government subsidies promote R&D cost stickiness in the new energy vehicle (NEV) industry in China—that is, whether public funding encourages firms to retain R&D resources even during periods of declining...
China has become the major stakeholder in global photovoltaic (PV) technology. However, the existing mechanistic interpretation of “what promotes the technological progress of the Chinese PV industry” is controversial. This paper takes Ch...
One of the most important factors in fostering the sustainable growth of the world economy is the global green low-carbon transition. With its effective use of resources, its high technological requirements, and its high added value, the new energy v...
Government subsidies as a policy instrument are used to alleviate market failure in research and development (R&D) activities. We aim to understand the influence of government subsidies on enterprises’ R&D investment and performance. We...
This study investigates the effects of government subsidies for R&D on resource and environmental enterprises’ voluntary national/industry standard- (N/IS-) setting, which is critical to sustainable development. Based on innovation motivati...
19 February 2020
The Yangtze River Economic Belt is the most important manufacturing economic belt in China. The level of manufacturing green innovation efficiency of the Yangtze River Economic Belt directly affects the overall competitiveness of China’s manufa...
(1) Background: with the emergence and continuous development of more multinational corporations, capital and resources flow rapidly in the form of global supply chains around the world. Furthermore, government subsidies for R&D are one of the ke...
Many governments actively subsidize the green activities of manufacturers and consumers to effectively realize the achievement of carbon emissions peak and carbon-neutral goals, while the development of a platform economy can effectively contribute t...
Government research and development (R&D) subsidies are more important in countries that are latecomers to the biotechnology industry, where venture capital has not been developed, and the ratio of start-ups is high. Previous studies have mostly...
The behavior of enterprises upgrading green technology presents a certain risk of failure. In this paper, the probability of R & D failure that is not considered in most articles is introduced into the model, and the supply chain composed of gree...
This paper evaluates the causal relationship between government subsidy and the innovation performance of new energy firms through count models using 2007–2021 data from China’s listed new energy companies. By looking at the subsidy for l...
Drawing from practices at Walmart, we model a supply chain where the manufacturer conducts product R&D while the retailer distributes products to two distinct consumer segments: green-conscious consumers who translate environmental principles int...
25 August 2022
With the development of blockchain, big data, cloud computing and other new technologies, how to achieve innovative development and green sustainable development in digital transformation has become one of the key issues for enterprises to obtain and...
Manufacturing innovation is of strategic importance to China in its effort to reshape future technology. This study explores the impact of government subsidies on the research and development (R&D) intensity of China’s new energy vehicle (N...
To promote the National Mid-andLong-Term Scientific and Technical Development Program, utilizing the technical innovation data from 30 provinces of China from2002–2016, this paper evaluates the inter-provincial differences of China’s regional innovat...
Based on the empirical analysis of panel data on new energy listed companies in China, the relationships among government subsidies, enterprise research and development input (R&D input), and firm performance are explored to measure the impact of...
This study examines whether China’s high-tech enterprise identification policy promotes corporate sustainable innovation. Using panel data from Chinese listed firms on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges between 2008 and 2022, we adopt a...
To encourage firms to engage in green production, two different types of investment funding, namely external funds from agencies outside the supply chain (e.g., government subsidy), and internal funds from supply chain partners (e.g., greening cost-s...
Exhaust pollution and energy crises are worsening worldwide. China has become the largest motor vehicle producer; thus, promoting the use of new energy vehicles (NEVs) in China has important practical significance. In this paper, considering the limi...
This study investigates how the functional diversity of top management teams (TMTs) affects the financial performance of A-share Chinese companies. To this end, we examine the interaction effects of TMT diversity with organizational innovativeness an...
Under the global carbon neutrality strategy, green transformation poses significant financial challenges for manufacturers, particularly due to delayed government subsidy disbursements. This study examines a two-echelon green supply chain where a cap...
The effectiveness of government subsidies for electric vehicle (EV) enterprises and future improvements to subsidy policies to promote industry development have garnered widespread attention. Distinct mechanisms exist through which R&D and non-R&...
The understanding of the impact of different government support methods on R&D efficiency is of great significance for evaluating the performance of innovation policies in various countries. We selected 31 manufacturing industries in China from 2...
At present, environmental and competitive pressures urge enterprises to engage in research and development (R&D) of green products, and a green supply chain has become the main trend in the sustainable development of enterprises. This study analy...
Although research on green innovation has increased dramatically in recent years, little is known about the system mechanisms for the innovation. Grounded in the resource dependency theory (RDT) and national innovation system (NIS) literature, this s...
Previous studies have investigated how government policies on renewable energy technology (RET) affect economic performance at the industrial level. However, each firm in the RET industry is heterogeneous in terms of their capacities, resources, and...
Increasing attention has been paid to regional innovation systems. However, previous studies have so far only focused on (the regional impact of) national policies or specific regions. Despite increasing attention to regional and local innovation pol...
Government subsidies are an important means to guide enterprises’ investment in technological innovation. While countries are increasing government subsidies to enterprises, how to effectively leverage government subsidies is a concern of the a...
23 October 2022
With the increase in the number of waste power batteries and the occurrence of related environmental problems, battery recycling is receiving extensive attention. Driven by economic benefits, many companies have begun to deploy the waste battery proc...
Purchase subsidy has been adopted to accelerate the diffusion of New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) in China. With a Multi-stage Difference-in-Differences (DID) method, this research investigates the impact of purchase subsidy on Research and Development (R&...
Sustainable innovation is an important factor for enterprises to obtain core competitiveness in modern society, and only continuous R&D investment can ensure the smooth progress of enterprise innovation. Therefore, this study uses the post-subsid...
Although green R&D is recognized as an effective approach to achieving sustainability goals, the adoption of green technology has not been ideal. As such, many governments support green R&D by subsidizing manufacturers’ green R&D or...
Governments design and implement policies to achieve a variety of goals, but perhaps none are as pressing as shifting national economies away from non-renewable fuels and towards more sustainable, environmentally-friendly technologies. To incentivize...
Against the backdrop of increasingly severe global environmental issues, the manner in which enterprises conduct R&D investment, influenced by both government environmental policies and their own pollution levels, has become a prominent research...
Global climate change presents severe challenges to both ecosystems and human societies, necessitating profound structural adjustments in high-emission industries, such as petroleum. This paper develops a two-tier supply chain model comprising a sing...
With reference to the existing literature, this paper investigates the heterogenous effect on the attainment of circular economy by government policies in the form of government stringency and government financial support, environmentally related inn...
Collaboration is regarded as an effective approach to improve the efficiency of research resources and reduce risks in innovation activities. Collaboration breadth is an important feature of collaborative extent. Therefore, it is necessary to analyse...
27 June 2022
Green innovation is vital for manufacturing enterprises to achieve a balance between economic, environmental and social benefits. This paper empirically investigates the mechanisms of government subsidies, R&D investment and public participatory...
This study explores evidence-based policymaking (EBP) in public research and development (R&D) programmes. Governments develop and implement R&D programmes to promote innovation, the key driver of sustainable economic growth. For effective ma...
From the interdisciplinary perspective of industrial economics and behavioral finance, this study establishes a noncooperative-cooperative biform game model between new energy enterprises and traditional energy enterprises. In this model, sales price...
As a typical technology-intensive industry, the renewable energy industry is a standard sample for scholars to study the R&D innovation of enterprises. At present, the industry is strongly supported by the government subsidy policy in China and h...
Cultivating strategic emerging industries (SEIs) is an important strategy for most countries around the world to seize the economic frontier. Academics have not yet reached a unified conclusion on whether the adoption of industrial policy from the go...
China’s pesticide industry has played an important role in the growth of agricultural productivity in both China and worldwide, but its development is hampered by production inefficiency and the lack of innovation of active ingredients. To impr...
Facing the pressure of green transformation, studying the relationship between government subsidies and the environmental performance of agricultural enterprises has significant theoretical value and practical significance for achieving sustainable a...
With the increasing awareness of environmental protection and the complexity and rapid change of technological innovation, more and more enterprises seek to develop and research (R&D) institutions to cooperate with green innovation. In order to p...
This paper uses the differential game approach to construct a model of cooperative emission reduction involving the government, manufacturing firms, and retail firms under different power structures. It is found that the dominant player receives more...
Commercial banks follow sustainable development strategies to provide green credit for companies. As the main target for banks to issue green credit, environmental protection companies carry out research and development (R&D) activities for the p...
With the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy and the promotion of agricultural and rural modernization, the subsidies enjoyed by agricultural enterprises in China are increasing. As a result, the effectiveness of government subsidies...
Regional technological innovation serves as a key pillar for achieving high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening, a fundamental requirement for promoting balanced regional development, and a vital aspect of implementing the innovation-driven de...
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