This paper aims to explore effective ways to incorporate a mission-orientated framework to innovation policies that are designed to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper aims to identify the strategies of...
This study investigated the role of public policy in transforming innovation systems into innovation ecosystems. Despite the numerous studies that examined the role of innovation policies in promoting innovation systems and the increasing attention p...
21 September 2018
Innovation policy and business strategy often expect that investing in private and public research and development will immediately produce a flow of products and processes with high commercial and social returns. Policymakers and managers implicitly...
Eco-innovation globally emerged as an effort to implement sustainable development. States and firms established and implemented policies and strategies for eco-innovation as one route to achieving sustainable development. Eco-innovation has been fac...
Regions dominated by brown industries have long been excluded from conventional green financial systems, reinforcing spatial inequality in green innovation. Under financing constraints, brown firms tend to adopt strategic innovation behaviors—n...
This study investigates the impact of the national innovative city policy on enterprise green technology innovation amid China’s transformation from a resource-dependent to an innovation-driven economy. Working on city- and enterprise-level dat...
10 January 2023
Urban innovation has always been a research topic of scholars, but research focusing on the relationship between innovative city pilot policy and regional innovation is still relatively rare. The objective of this study is to examine the impact of th...
In the context of governing innovation systems for low-carbon transitions, learning is paramount. In this article, we look specifically at the issue of learning through innovation policy review processes. We begin by reviewing the academic literature...
With the increasing demand for digital innovation scenarios, it is important to complement and improve the policy system for the governance of digital innovation activities. Combining the previous research results on the analysis of antecedent variab...
17 May 2019
Policy innovation and diffusion studies have, since 1990, generally focused on a specific policy over time. Yet, few studies have considered if and why states adopt related multiple policies—a package of reforms—in a policy area. Are more...
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed structural weaknesses in health systems, economies, and governance frameworks, while simultaneously stimulating diverse forms of social innovation. This article examines the emergence and operation of Social Innovation E...
The Chinese government has gradually launched open data platforms across municipalities since 2012, releasing authoritative public records as reusable assets. Market frictions such as information asymmetry continue to constrain firms from engaging in...
Innovation and carbon neutrality are hot topics nowadays and are important issues related to development quality, efficiency, and long-term sustainability. The purpose of this paper was to analyze the impact of innovation-driven policy on reducing ca...
This study explores the influence of trade policy uncertainty on medical innovation investment in developing nations from 1980 to 2020, with a focus on the period of COVID-19. We used exogenous and heterogeneous exposure to trade-policy-uncertainty r...
We aimed to assess the efficiency of the selected national innovation policy programs in the Republic of Serbia. We analyzed the impact of the Innovation Fund’s Mini-Grants and Matching Grants programs on the operating revenue growth of benefic...
This paper estimates how corporate innovation investment responds to climate policy uncertainty using panel data with 3197 listed firms from 2010 to 2022 in China. The findings show that climate policy uncertainty positively contributes to corporate...
The problem addressed in this paper is the challenge of moving from formulating policy goals to achieving the promised results. The purpose is to assess the possible role of innovation in agriculture as a way of contributing towards achieving the Mal...
As global sustainability goals gain importance, fostering green innovation has become critical for businesses to reduce environmental impact and enhance sustainability. Green credit policies, which incentivize firms to adopt eco-friendly practices, a...
Firms increasingly face disruptions arising from technological change, supply chain instability, and uncertain policy environments, making enterprise resilience a key concern for both managers and policymakers. As firms operate within interconnected...
China has already joined the ranks of innovative nations. Accelerating technological innovation to lead a green transformation in land use is an urgent requirement for promoting ecological civilization and, in turn, driving high-quality economic deve...
Based on the theory of dynamic capability theory, this study takes 671 listed companies in China’s ICT industry from 2010 to 2021 as a sample to explore the impact mechanism of policy-oriented ambidextrous innovation on sustainable entrepreneur...
Few studies have addressed how customer concentration affects the decision of a firm’s research and development (R&D) strategies and then innovation outcome. Using a sample of China’s listed companies for the period from 2009 to 2017,...
Government policies have impacts on the disruptive innovation behavior of local companies, especially the green development policies. This paper is based on institutional theory, using data from 170 Chinese manufacturing entrepreneurs to verify that...
22 November 2019
Environmental regulation is an important driving force of green technology innovation. In this paper, environmental policy instruments are classified into three categories: command-control, market-incentive and social-will. Based on the panel data of...
Trade policy uncertainty (TPU) plays an important role in shaping corporate green innovation. Although prior studies have widely examined climate policy uncertainty and carbon emissions trading schemes, the role of trade policy itself remains underex...
The current global energy crisis has prompted a comprehensive investigation into its influencing factors. It is hypothesised that a set of monetary, macro-environmental, and institutional variables causally affect the transition to green development...
The sustainable development of transport is fostered by innovations. To implement innovations, the European Commission issues different regulations, programs and initiatives and the European Transport Policy has a significant impact on transport poli...
With the rapid expansion of green innovation and the increasing emphasis on innovation quality, concerns have emerged regarding whether firms engage in symbolic green innovation activities rather than substantive technological advancement. Understand...
This study selects Chinese A-listed non-financial and non-insurance enterprises covering the period from 2009 to 2023 as the research sample. Utilizing the green credit interest subsidy policy (GCISP) as a quasi-natural experiment, it employs a multi...
This study investigates the impact of green innovation (GI) on corporate environmental performance (CEP), while examining the moderating roles of corporate governance practices (CGPs) and environmental policy pressure (EPP). This study uses advanced...
Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) is a new paradigm in science, technology, and innovation policy that seeks to produce a transition to sustainable development. In this paradigm, universities are crucial actors in the dynamics of science, techno...
Green finance is widely promoted as a tool for supporting low-carbon development, but its effects on innovation efficiency remain unclear. This study examines the impact of China’s Green Finance Reform and Innovation Pilot Zones (GFRIPZ) on gre...
In the context of an increasingly tense relationship between environmental and economic goals, green innovation is of crucial importance for the global green transformation. However, its dual external effects often render a single policy tool ineffec...
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...
Government support has long been viewed as a key driver of sustainable transformation and green technological progress. However, the underlying mechanisms (“how”) through which preferential policies influence green innovation, as well as...
Amid rising global economic uncertainty and frequent external shocks, strengthening marine economic resilience has become a core priority for coastal nations to stabilize industrial supply chains and achieve sustainable marine development. China&rsqu...
Green innovation is essential to the low-carbon transition, but aggregate patent counts may conceal changes in the technological quality of corporate innovation. Using this observation as a starting point, this study asks how economic policy uncertai...
This article examines interregional differences in innovation development in Kazakhstan through the relationship between innovation resources and innovation-related economic outcomes. For an economy seeking diversification, higher productivity, and r...
So far, the existing literature has examined the impact of climate policy uncertainty (CPU) on the green innovation (GI) of listed firms. However, there is still a lack of research on how climate policy uncertainty affects regional innovation compare...
Climate change is a major challenge for humanity, with important implications for corporate development. Based on the data of China’s A-share listed companies from 2000 to 2021, this study evaluates the impact of climate policy uncertainty (CPU...
To achieve the twin goals of “stable growth” and “environmental protection”, it is necessary to promote green innovation in firms and green transformation of the economy. This paper regards China’s Green Credit Guideline...
In the context of promoting sustainable development and innovative growth, few studies have examined the signaling role of digital policy texts and its effects on enterprise innovation. Focused on the pilot project of China’s National Big Data...
The aim of this paper is to identify some changes needed in Spain’s innovation policy to fill the gap between its innovation results and those of other European countries in lieu of sustainable leadership. To do this we apply the Delphi methodology t...
Innovation is the main driving force of the sustainable development of enterprises. Economic policy uncertainty has increased dramatically in recent years due to events such as COVID-19, which will alter the business environment of enterprises and ul...
This paper looks into the determinants of national innovation performance from the perspective of policy regime and establishes a theoretical model on how a country’s dual Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) policy regimes, democratic and...
To achieve sustainable development, it is necessary to consider the business model adjustment of the industry in advance, from the development stage to the mature stage. In China, strategic emerging industries are industries that achieve technologica...
Innovation, an internal drive promoting regional sustainable economic development, has received great attention around the world. The goal of this paper is to explore the relationship between sustainable input and regional innovation performance unde...
In today’s increasingly competitive international environment, original technology innovation has become essential for enhancing enterprises’ sustainability. As key innovation needs constant exploration rather than growing leaps and bound...
Enhancing the quality of urban innovation is a powerful strategy for advancing urban sustainability. A strong public innovation policy is a crucial building block for advancing urban innovation quality. This study identifies innovative procurement in...
In order to fulfill the commitment to the “dual carbon goal” at an early date, China has implemented a series of carbon control policies. However, the actual impact of these policy combinations on green innovation in Chinese cities remain...
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