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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,962 Views
27 Pages

4 April 2025

Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2013 to 2022, this paper constructs a measurement index system for the symbiotic level of digital innovation ecosystems from three dimensions: the symbiosis of digital innovation subjects, the dig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,792 Views
16 Pages

23 July 2022

This paper investigates the impact of high-speed railways (HSR) on urban innovation levels by improving intercity accessibility. We employ prefecture city-level data within three megacity regions in China from 2009 to 2018. Using the number of invent...

  • Study Protocol
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,094 Views
20 Pages

Green Innovation in Regional Logistics: Level Evaluation and Spatial Analysis

  • Hao Zhang,
  • Xin Sun,
  • Kailong Dong,
  • Lianghui Sui,
  • Min Wang and
  • Qiong Hong

Green innovation is imperative for the high-quality and sustainable development of the modern logistics industry. It is also key for achieving the goals of peak emissions and carbon neutrality. This study provides a way of thinking about the evaluati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,123 Views
14 Pages

31 December 2018

Compared with developed countries, the paper explores whether non-R&D innovation activities in China actually are effective and provides a guidance on how we can choose a sustainable innovation mode for non-R&D, especially considering the &ld...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,831 Views
19 Pages

23 December 2022

To explore the impact of dynamic changes in tourist demand on the digital transformation of tourism enterprises, this paper starts with demand-side changes, environmental influences, and technical support, based on theories of supply and demand equil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,398 Views
23 Pages

1 September 2025

The purpose of this study is to systematically examine the impact of technological innovation on the coordinated development of regional economies and its internal mechanism. It is aimed at revealing whether and how technological innovation promotes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,503 Views
20 Pages

3 July 2023

The current global situation is complex and volatile. Thus, promoting the construction of a resilient digital innovation ecosystem has become an important issue for regional innovation development. Based on panel data from 30 Chinese provinces and ci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
5,145 Views
18 Pages

10 September 2022

This paper used the entropy method to measure the comprehensive level of China’s urban regional digital economy development and measured the transformation and upgrading of industrial structures from both quantitative and qualitative dimensions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,219 Views
28 Pages

The growing and expanding zone of the free-market economy results in increasing competition in the global market, which leads companies to seek and implement solutions that will give them a competitive advantage. The authorities of countries and regi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,887 Views
20 Pages

19 September 2017

Nowadays, in China, there exist obvious regional economic differences. However, narrowing such differences involves solving the problem of regional innovation differences. Furthermore, regional innovation capability disparity is an important factor i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,768 Views
21 Pages

6 June 2024

Coordinated regional development is an important issue for China in the new era, and the influence of innovation ability on regional economic development is increasing, but the current regional innovation is characterized by an increasingly obvious &...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,471 Views
20 Pages

20 March 2021

The Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) is an analytical framework developed to explain transitions towards sustainability. This article aims to contribute to enhancing the use of the MLP to understand the transitions towards sustainability in agriculture....

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,418 Views
21 Pages

17 September 2019

Behind the high development of technology, backward institution systems and imperfect incentive mechanisms are not conducive to the green transformation of the economic society in China. Meanwhile, the relative effectiveness of both technical and ins...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,671 Views
31 Pages

8 January 2022

The groundwater-dependent ecosystem in the Gnangara region is confronted with great threats due to the decline in groundwater level since the 1970s. The aim of this study is to apply multiple trend analysis methods at 351 monitoring bores to detect t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,135 Views
23 Pages

Innovative Development of Russian Regions: Assessment and Dynamics in the Context of Sustainable Development

  • Nataliya V. Yakovenko,
  • Lyudmila V. Semenova,
  • Elena Y. Nikolskaya,
  • Elena Y. Semenova,
  • Zhanar S. Rakhimbekova,
  • Anzor Kh. Karanashev,
  • Marina Ye. Tsoy and
  • Natalia A. Azarova

2 February 2024

Innovative development of regions is a key factor that determines the level of competitiveness of the economies of all countries in the world. This article uses statistical tools to assess the level of innovative development of the regions of the Rus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,639 Views
18 Pages

Innovation, in all its forms, has become a central activity in companies. Moreover, innovation is considered as the engine of growth in several countries. The main objective of this paper is to study the determinants of innovation (product and proces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,380 Views
24 Pages

An Innovative Land Suitability Method to Assess the Potential for the Introduction of a New Crop at a Regional Level

  • Elisa Marraccini,
  • Alicia Ayerdi Gotor,
  • Olivier Scheurer and
  • Christine Leclercq

2 March 2020

Although crop diversification is one of the main strategy of agroecological transition, a major obstacle is the lack of local references regarding new crops. Land suitability methods can provide a rapid screening of crop suitability in a region. Howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,965 Views
55 Pages

31 March 2020

Although the innovation factor endowment of Heilongjiang province is relatively rich, many innovation resources cannot effectively promote the sustainable development of innovation-driven performance. The combined drift degree evaluation method and g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,283 Views
15 Pages

11 July 2017

Innovation talents, as a most active and important resource in innovation activities, are receiving increasing attention in the enhancement of innovation capability. It seems that areas with strong innovation capability are more attractive to innovat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,978 Views
17 Pages

13 February 2023

This paper selects the panel data of 11 cities in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GHMA) from 2010 to 2020, calculates the Malmquist index of urban agglomerations to measure regional innovation, constructs the evaluation sy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,033 Views
28 Pages

25 May 2024

Based on niche theory, this paper constructs an evaluation index system for regional innovation ecosystem suitability from four aspects: innovation benefits, innovation technology, innovation culture, and innovation policy. The niche evaluation model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,830 Views
18 Pages

30 November 2022

The collaborative innovation of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is faced with prominent problems such as the large gap in innovation resources and capability. In addition, science and technology (S&T) finance provides the approach to promote the flo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
7,595 Views
23 Pages

1 February 2022

Environmental regulations have a certain impact on regional green technology innovation affected by regional differences. Using the panel data of 30 provincial-level administrative regions in China (excluding Tibet, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,318 Views
16 Pages

23 November 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,494 Views
21 Pages

The evaluation of regional innovation performance through composite innovation indices can serve as a valuable tool for policy-making. While discussion on the best methodology to construct composite innovation indices continues, we are interested in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,343 Views
21 Pages

A Study on the Impact Mechanism of Digitalization on Corporate Green Innovation

  • Shanshan Gao,
  • Wenqi Li,
  • Jiayi Meng,
  • Jianfeng Shi and
  • Jianhua Zhu

9 April 2023

With the wide application of digital technologies such as big data, cloud computing and 5G technology, the digital transformation of enterprises provides new ways for enterprises to enhance green innovation and achieve sustainable development. Starti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,650 Views
23 Pages

19 February 2023

How to improve the level of urban land intensive use (ULIU) has been of wide concern to academic circles. Technology innovation, as the internal driving force of economic development, has an important impact on ULIU. To clarify the impacts of technol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,480 Views
21 Pages

22 February 2025

Green innovation is an important starting point for implementing new developmental concepts and promoting high-quality development in the modern era. We construct an integrated analysis framework based on the environment–resource–subject...

  • Article
  • Open Access
278 Views
26 Pages

9 December 2025

Evaluating and categorizing an economy’s capacity for regional innovation is important. Within China, regional innovation capacity is imbalanced. With this in mind, we construct a data system to assess regions within the Yangtze River Basin. Us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,901 Views
21 Pages

27 September 2020

Regional Innovation and Smart Specialisation Strategies (RIS3) are treated as one of the key tools in implementing the concept of smart and sustainable growth. The strategies make it possible to focus investments on research, development and innovati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,717 Views
21 Pages

5 July 2019

With the transition in the regional development discourse to knowledge- and innovation-based economics, the cultivation of innovation capacity has gained importance as an initiative to enhance regional sustainability and has emerged as a policy goal....

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,309 Views
17 Pages

25 February 2023

Based on theoretical analysis, this paper examines the impact of China’s outward foreign direct investment on regional capabilities of sustainable innovation. Empirical tests are used to analyze the mechanism of OFDI in regional capabilities of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,276 Views
23 Pages

29 February 2024

The advance of the new energy industry and the promotion of green innovation are both important ways to solve environmental pollution and achieve economic green transformation, and there may be a non-negligible intrinsic connection between the two. U...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,562 Views
25 Pages

27 June 2022

To promote coupling coordination development for regional innovation environment-resource-output-benefit (EROB) composite systems, we propose a data-driven integrated model method for measurement, evaluation, and identification. First, we construct a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,297 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,326 Views
17 Pages

3 November 2023

The primary aim of this paper is to identify key similarities and differences in the conceptualization of culture across the major theories of regional socioeconomic science, including economic, business, administrative, social, cultural and politica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,116 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,718 Views
20 Pages

21 June 2023

This paper theoretically analyzes the bilateral mechanism of ESG responsibility fulfillment on green innovation of industrial enterprises and decomposes the promotion effect, inhibition effect and the net effect of mutual influence of ESG responsibil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,751 Views
17 Pages

2 August 2023

Enhancing regional innovation capacity has become a realistic need to promote high-quality economic development. At present, there is no consensus on how housing prices affect regional innovation capacity. Papers in the existing literature frequently...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,152 Views
24 Pages

15 February 2025

The integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation has emerged as a pivotal driver of sustainable economic growth. Utilizing the theory of system coupling, this study conceptualizes the integration process as comple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,638 Views
17 Pages

26 July 2022

Based on the data of listed enterprises in China from 2007 to 2019, this study uses the quasi-natural experiment method (staggered DID) to explore the actual impact of the establishment of state-level urban agglomeration on the innovation activities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
380 Views
21 Pages

3 December 2025

Enhancing corporate green innovation has become a critical question in the context of sustainable development. Prior studies have predominantly examined the macro-level effects of regional integration while largely overlooking its micro-level impacts...

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  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,137 Views
19 Pages

In 2015, China put forward five development concepts, propounded the concept of green development and green innovation, and adhered to the road of sustainable development. China also promoted the vision of high-quality economic development in 2017. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
8,642 Views
17 Pages

Agricultural technology innovation is key for improving productivity, sustainability, and resilience in food production and agriculture to contribute to public health. Using panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2003 to 2015, this study examines t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
732 Views
32 Pages

12 September 2025

Under the context of the “dual carbon” goals, the synergistic development of green finance and low-carbon innovation plays a significant role in driving the green transformation of the economy and high-quality development. This paper, bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,677 Views
15 Pages

1 December 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,384 Views
42 Pages

30 June 2023

As the continuous improvement of the quality of innovation becomes increasingly significant for balanced regional development in China, it is critical to provide insights into the sustainability of regional innovation in China from the viewpoint of v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,227 Views
17 Pages

12 September 2020

Under globalization conditions, the main priority of the state education policy in many countries of the world is to ensure higher education quality. This is possible through close and efficient cooperation between the state, higher education institu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,291 Views
19 Pages

The Impact of Government Role on High-Quality Innovation Development in Mainland China

  • Xuanzhi Yang,
  • Zhaofang Zhang,
  • Wei Luo,
  • Zhen Tang,
  • Xin Gao,
  • Zhongchi Wan and
  • Xin Zhang

18 October 2019

Innovation serves as the first impetus for high-quality development. The role of government in promoting high-quality innovation development has become a chief driving force. Therefore, based on role theory, this paper will discuss the effect of diff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,738 Views
25 Pages

16 February 2022

In China’s period of economic transition, enterprises often find it difficult to obtain the support of formal institutions and the capital market, so informal institutions such as value and social networks are particularly important resources....

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