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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,392 Views
16 Pages

We empirically investigate the relationship between environmental regulation and regional innovative ability from the perspective of government competition with a dynamic spatial model, using the 2011–2020 Chinese interprovincial panel dataset...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Policy and Governance Performance)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,577 Views
16 Pages

Green development is the only way to realize harmonious coexistence between people and nature, so it is of great significance to create a benchmark for high-quality development. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces (except Tibet, Hong Kong, Macao,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Recent Development of Environmental Management in Asia)
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  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,152 Views
18 Pages

Open innovation (OI) has been implemented to develop competitive advantages based on the management of innovation with external players. As such, it is expected that the generalized adoption of OI practices needs to be nurtured by governmental public...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Open Innovation in Startups: Competitive Strategies for Differentiation)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,927 Views
21 Pages

The Impact of Governmental Regulations and Environmental Activities on Innovation Efficiency

  • Daniel Knapp,
  • Niklas Bayrle-Kelso,
  • Arabella Nigg-Stock and
  • Leo Brecht

9 January 2025

Innovation efficiency plays a key role in ensuring that sustainability efforts are implemented effectively and yield maximum benefits. This study emphasizes the impact of government regulations and environmental resource-saving approaches on innovati...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,447 Views
20 Pages

16 February 2023

Since its reform and opening up, China’s economy has undergone rapid development and has experienced problems such as the overexploitation of resources and the destruction of the ecological environment. To achieve a balance between economic gro...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,608 Views
28 Pages

27 November 2023

A number of studies have confirmed the Porter hypothesis that moderate environmental regulation can facilitate the adoption of green technology innovation strategies by cooperatives. However, the existing research has not clearly analyzed the paths o...

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  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,781 Views
18 Pages

The implementation of a reasonable and effective environmental regulation policy can compensate for the dual externalities of green technology innovation and improve green innovation efficiency. Therefore, environmental regulation policy has graduall...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Climate Simulation and Observation)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,915 Views
23 Pages

22 February 2025

The relationship between environmental regulation and regional innovation has been disputed. This paper analyzes data at the provincial level in China between 2009 and 2020 using a fixed-effects model to investigate the relationship between environme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technology Innovation and Policy for Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,317 Views
37 Pages

29 January 2026

Growing pressure for sustainability has intensified the need for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt environmental innovation while maintaining competitive performance. This study examines how green innovation strategy, environmental...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Comprehensive Studies on the Development of International Business)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
484 Views
25 Pages

9 July 2026

This study incorporates environmental regulation, green technological innovation, and industrial structure upgrading into a unified analytical framework. Collecting panel data from 71 core prefecture-level cities in the Chengdu–Chongqing, Middl...

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  • Open Access
59 Citations
6,487 Views
20 Pages

28 October 2019

The links among firms’ environmental regulation, innovation process, and sustainable development has been analyzed, but a research gap still remains in terms of environmental commitment and different types of sustainable innovation in firms&rsq...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainability in Geographic Science)
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  • Open Access
55 Citations
5,393 Views
16 Pages

Many developing countries including China are implementing increasingly stringent environmental regulations to achieve sustainable development. However, we have limited understanding about whether environmental regulations promote enterprise green in...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Science and Engineering)
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  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,699 Views
15 Pages

The Impact of Environmental Regulation on Technological Innovation of Resource-Based Industries

  • Weiqing Li,
  • Huaping Sun,
  • Dang Khoa Tran and
  • Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary

23 August 2020

The development of the resource-based industry has obvious negative externality, and the government’s environmental regulation on the resource-based industry will force the technological innovation of the resource-based industry. This paper sel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geopolitical Risk in Emerging Economies)
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  • Open Access
50 Citations
4,923 Views
14 Pages

Green technology innovation is one of the driving forces of industrial structure upgrading. This innovation is thought to be related to environmental regulation. The study uses panel data for 30 Chinese provinces and cities from 2009 to 2020 and pres...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Circular Economy and Green Environment)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,387 Views
14 Pages

Due to safety issues in the construction industry, interest in research on occupational safety and health (OSH) regulations remains high. Previous studies indicated that OSH regulations not only affect performance in and of themselves, but also indir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantitative Analysis Using Public Healthcare Data)
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  • Open Access
62 Citations
6,553 Views
28 Pages

Environmental Uncertainty, Environmental Regulation and Enterprises’ Green Technological Innovation

  • Jinyong Chen,
  • Xiaochi Wang,
  • Wan Shen,
  • Yanyan Tan,
  • Liviu Marian Matac and
  • Sarminah Samad

This paper examines the impact of environmental uncertainty and environmental regulation on enterprises’ green technological innovation, using a panel data of Chinese A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2005 to 2019 to conduc...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
3,805 Views
18 Pages

20 January 2023

Green technology innovation is increasingly becoming an important driver of modern development. Facing the pressure of the carbon neutrality target, China has been strengthening environmental regulations in recent years, and the green technology inno...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,440 Views
33 Pages

In the context of China’s “double carbon” target, an urgent problem that remains to be solved is how to drive the construction of an enterprise green innovation ecosystem through effective environmental regulations to alleviate the pressure of energy...

(This article belongs to the Section Anthropogenic Circularity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,553 Views
17 Pages

29 March 2023

Environmental issues have received worldwide attention in recent years, and a large body of literature has focused on environmental regulations and business innovation. However, very few studies examine the effects of market-incentive-based environme...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,545 Views
21 Pages

The “Porter Hypothesis” proposes that appropriate environmental regulations would promote firm innovation. This study aims to build a theoretical model for illustrating the impact and mechanism of environmental regulation on urban innovat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Greening Urban Spaces: A Healthy Community Design)
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  • Open Access
343 Citations
18,284 Views
21 Pages

23 March 2018

The “environmental pollution–economic development” circle is a problem in the process of national sustainable development. As a complex concept of environmental protection and technology innovation, green technology innovation is the key to cracking...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmentally Sustainable Competitive Strategies)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,473 Views
23 Pages

Environmental Regulations, Green Technological Innovation, and Green Economy: Evidence from China

  • Chenggang Wang,
  • Danli Du,
  • Tiansen Liu,
  • Xiaohuan Li,
  • Yue Zhu,
  • Wenhui Du,
  • Fan Xu,
  • Mingtong Yan and
  • Junxin Chen

30 June 2024

With the advancement of the green economy, the influence of the environmental regulations on green technological innovation and the green economy is increasingly expanding. This paper investigates the impact of the environmental regulations and corpo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,412 Views
21 Pages

26 June 2023

Promoting energy-intensive enterprises’ green innovation is essential for transitioning to a low-carbon economy. This study explores the promoting factors and influencing mechanisms that drive energy-intensive enterprises’ green innovatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
4,814 Views
19 Pages

Green technology innovation can bring about dual benefits, i.e., technological progress and energy conservation, as well as emission reduction, which are regarded as effective means to achieve economic development and environmental protection. The in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Management and Pro-Environmental Behaviors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,841 Views
18 Pages

Green technological innovation is an important force for high-quality economic development and high-level ecological environment protection. Environmental regulation and market financing are important factors affecting enterprise green technological...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,997 Views
23 Pages

25 May 2019

With the increasingly severe emission reduction pressures, it is an inevitable choice for China to improve the intensity of environmental regulation. At the same time, the impact of technological innovation on enterprise employment may lead to some n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technological Innovation and the Effect of Employment on Green Growth)
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  • Open Access
80 Citations
9,201 Views
17 Pages

9 March 2022

Innovation is the first driving force for development, and green innovation efficiency (GIE) plays a very important role in regional sustainable development. Data from 31 provinces and cities in China from 2011 to 2020 were used to select the proport...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Low Carbon Economy, Green Innovation, Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,695 Views
16 Pages

Green innovation is vital in transforming China’s economic development from high speed to high quality. Environmental regulation plays an important role in stimulating regional green innovation, and appropriate environmental decentralization is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,762 Views
18 Pages

Promoting environmental innovation through environmental regulation is a key measure for cities to reduce environmental pressure; however, the role of environmental regulation in environmental innovation is controversial. This study used the number o...

(This article belongs to the Topic Energy Efficiency, Environment and Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
6,326 Views
21 Pages

China and other emerging market countries have suffered from the problem of environmental pollution while developing rapidly in the past few decades. In recent years, many countries have introduced strict environmental regulations in order to achieve...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Science and Engineering)
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  • Open Access
62 Citations
8,232 Views
22 Pages

31 January 2020

This study develops a multiple mediating model for exploring the link between environmental regulation and financial performance through green dynamic capability, sustainability exploration/exploitation innovation, based on the data from 355 Chinese...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Policy Design and Implementation: Toward Sustainable Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,238 Views
13 Pages

18 October 2022

Faced with the severe situation of high energy consumption and major pollutant emissions, the Chinese government has adopted various mandatory environmental regulations (MERs) to improve the binding force of environmental protection policy implementa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Perspectives: Renewable Energy Policy and Economic Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,819 Views
19 Pages

4 October 2021

This paper investigates the transmission of pressure between the public, relevant government departments, and industrial firms through the use of formal environmental regulations. The data include formal environmental regulations issued from 2005 to...

(This article belongs to the Collection Technological Innovation and Economic Growth)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,135 Views
23 Pages

Environmental Regulation, Green Innovation, and Corporate Brand Value

  • Yue Li,
  • Chen Zou,
  • Yongchun Huang and
  • Anwei Wan

12 April 2025

Under the background of green development and brand building, this article aims to explore the relationship between environmental regulation on corporate brand value and the mediating effect of green innovation, which can help enterprises build a syn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,259 Views
22 Pages

14 November 2025

A strategic fulcrum for leading high-quality economic development and shaping the nation’s future. Core competitiveness lies in how governments can effectively stimulate consumer demand for green consumption and motivate enterprises to pursue g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamic Analysis and Decision-Making in Complex Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,266 Views
31 Pages

3 September 2025

The development of the digital economy has become a significant driving force for the innovation of green technology in the manufacturing sectors. Green technology innovation in the manufacturing sectors is not only a key engine for realizing economi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,633 Views
18 Pages

This paper took the policy of China’ Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan as an exogenous shock to reflect the change in environmental regulation intensity. By matching environmental policies with micro data of listed companies in C...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Addressing Climate Change and the Low-Carbon Economy: Toward Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,152 Views
21 Pages

Building upon institutional theory and the concept of openness to external sources in terms of breadth and depth, this study investigates the following three understudied drivers of eco-innovation in terms of external and internal factors: Anticipate...

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  • Open Access
82 Citations
8,237 Views
19 Pages

Environmental Regulation, Government Subsidies, and Green Technology Innovation—A Provincial Panel Data Analysis from China

  • Pei Wang,
  • Cong Dong,
  • Nan Chen,
  • Ming Qi,
  • Shucheng Yang,
  • Amuji Bridget Nnenna and
  • Wenxin Li

Economic development in the “new era” will require green innovation. To encourage the growth of green technology innovation, it has become fashionable to strengthen environmental regulation. However, the impact of environmental regulation on green te...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,683 Views
20 Pages

The Connection between Absorptive Capacity and Green Innovation: The Function of Board Capital and Environmental Regulation

  • Sohail Ahmad Javeed,
  • Boon Heng Teh,
  • Tze San Ong,
  • Nguyen Thi Phuong Lan,
  • Saravanan Muthaiyah and
  • Rashid Latief

The stress of environmental regulations, sustainable development objectives, and global warming is becoming more prominent now. Most studies conclude that the industrial sector is largely at fault and under tremendous pressure to address these climat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,081 Views
21 Pages

15 October 2022

The green innovation of family enterprises under environmental regulation is essentially the balance between emotional benefits and emotional costs, which manifests as the reputation incentive and risk aversion, respectively. The reputation incentive...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,603 Views
18 Pages

4 January 2022

Environmental regulation and technological innovation play important strategic roles in green growth, and the three systems interact and influence each other. Herein, we used a comprehensive development level evaluation model for calculating the envi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,988 Views
17 Pages

22 May 2024

To achieve carbon peaking and neutrality, optimizing power allocation and fiscal responsibilities between China's central and local authorities is essential for balancing environmental and economic goals. This study employs fixed-effects panel regres...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
127 Citations
8,435 Views
19 Pages

As an essential way to promote ecological civilization, green finance is attracting wide attention. However, whether green finance can successfully regulate the green technology innovation effect of heterogeneous environmental regulations and boost g...

(This article belongs to the Section Anthropogenic Circularity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
5,337 Views
19 Pages

11 April 2019

China’s traditional industrial model is characterized by high energy consumption and high pollution, which results in many environmental problems that cannot be ignored. To achieve sustainable development, the Chinese government has proposed fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
187 Citations
42,556 Views
23 Pages

19 January 2011

This article explores the complex relationship between environmental regulation, innovation, and sustainable development within the context of an increasingly globalizing economy. The economic development, environment, and employment aspects of susta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Laws and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,430 Views
26 Pages

12 July 2023

It is of great significance to clarify the impact and mechanism of environmental regulations on enterprises’ green innovation. This paper empirically studies the impact of command-and-control environmental regulation (CCER) and market-incentive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Towards an Ecological Economics of Sustainability: From the Perspective of Environmental Regulation Policies and Pollutant Emissions Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,696 Views
17 Pages

14 January 2022

This study aims to examine the relationship between environmental regulation, technological innovation and the development of China’s marine fisheries. We make a theoretical overview of the relationship between environmental regulation, technol...

(This article belongs to the Section Fishery Economics, Policy, and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
255 Citations
17,114 Views
22 Pages

16 January 2018

Environmental regulation and green innovation are two main fulcrums in the realization of green transition of industrial growth. However, few studies have done an empirical analysis of the impact of environmental regulation and green innovation on gr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transition from China-Made to China-Innovation )
  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
6,540 Views
17 Pages

15 July 2022

Digital finance provides a premises guarantee for green technology innovation, and effective environmental regulation helps to achieve green and sustainable development. This article selects Chinese urban panel data from 2011 to 2019 to explore the i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Governance for Sustainable Development)

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