School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China.
School of Management, China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy, Collaborative Innovation Center for Energy Economics and Energy Policy, Xiamen University, Fujian, 361005, China.
J Environ Manage. 2024 Sep;367:121972. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121972. Epub 2024 Jul 29.
Cooperative green technology innovation is potentially the answer to the lack of motivation for independent green innovation, which can effectively alleviate many difficulties faced by enterprises engaging in independent green innovation. Internet development provides new opportunities to stimulate innovative cooperation of enterprises. However, little literature has studied the impact of Internet development on enterprises' cooperative green technology innovation. Based on the data of Chinese A-share 3284 listed companies from 2010 to 2019, this paper uses a panel two-way fixed effects model to assess the effect of Internet development on enterprises' cooperative green innovation. The findings are: (1) Internet development significantly drives firms' collaborative green innovation behavior. The result remains robust even after performing a series of robust tests. (2) The Internet empowers green innovation cooperation among firms by improving information availability, including market information availability and technical information availability. (3) The heterogeneous results show enterprises use the Internet to accomplish high-quality collaborative green innovation. Internet development is more helpful in encouraging the cooperative green innovation of enterprises located in central cities and state-owned enterprises. This study provides novel and targeted policy implications to empower enterprises' green innovation cooperation and drive sustainable economic development through Internet development.
合作绿色技术创新可能是解决独立绿色创新动力不足的答案，它可以有效缓解企业独立绿色创新面临的诸多困难。互联网发展为激发企业创新合作提供了新的契机。然而，很少有文献研究互联网发展对企业合作绿色技术创新的影响。本文基于 2010 年至 2019 年中国 A 股 3284 家上市公司的数据，采用面板双向固定效应模型评估了互联网发展对企业合作绿色创新的影响。研究结果表明：（1）互联网发展显著推动了企业的合作绿色创新行为。即使在进行了一系列稳健性检验后，结果仍然稳健。（2）互联网通过提高市场信息和技术信息的可得性，为企业绿色创新合作赋能。（3）异质性结果表明，企业利用互联网实现高质量的合作绿色创新。互联网发展对位于中心城市和国有企业的企业合作绿色创新更有帮助。本研究通过互联网发展为企业绿色创新合作提供了新的有针对性的政策启示，以推动可持续经济发展。
