School of Economics and Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, China.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 Feb;28(7):8323-8336. doi: 10.1007/s11356-020-11225-w. Epub 2020 Oct 15.
It is important for China's green innovation productivity and sustainable development to study the effect of heterogeneous environmental regulation on microenterprise innovation activities. Based on the panel data of high-tech enterprises in China from 2012 to 2017, the article studies the incentive effect of heterogeneous environmental regulation on technological innovation and the mediation of innovation input and explores whether different types of environmental regulations have interactive effects on enterprise innovation. The results reveal that compared with the command-controlled environmental regulation, the incentive effect of market-incentive environmental regulation and voluntary environmental regulation on enterprise innovation is more significant, where the innovation input fully plays its role as a mediating effect. Further research finds that there is an interactive effect between command-controlled environmental regulation and other two regulatory tools, but no interactive effect between market-incentive environmental regulation and voluntary environmental regulation, which shows that the control-based regulatory tools and more flexible regulatory tools have a complementary effect on enterprise innovation. Through revealing the internal mechanism of environmental regulation on enterprise innovation, the article displays the process of technological innovation, and it also finds that flexible regulation tools and the combination of rigid and flexible tools are more conducive to encourage enterprises to carry out innovation activities.
研究异质环境规制对微企业创新活动的影响，对中国绿色创新生产力和可持续发展具有重要意义。本文基于 2012 年至 2017 年中国高新技术企业的面板数据，研究了异质环境规制对技术创新的激励效应以及创新投入的中介作用，并探讨了不同类型的环境规制是否对企业创新存在交互效应。结果表明，与命令控制型环境规制相比，市场激励型环境规制和自愿环境规制对企业创新的激励效应更为显著，其中创新投入充分发挥了中介作用。进一步的研究发现，命令控制型环境规制与其他两种规制工具之间存在交互效应，但市场激励型环境规制和自愿环境规制之间不存在交互效应，这表明基于控制的规制工具和更灵活的规制工具对企业创新具有互补效应。通过揭示环境规制对企业创新的内在机制，本文展示了技术创新的过程，还发现灵活的规制工具以及刚性和灵活工具的结合更有利于鼓励企业开展创新活动。
