Business School, Hohai University, Nanjing, 211100, China.
J Environ Manage. 2024 Oct;369:122303. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122303. Epub 2024 Aug 28.
The issues of resource scarcity and environmental pollution has become huge challenges that all of humanity faces together. To resolve the issue, promoting urban green innovation capacity is important. This study uses 189 prefecture-level cities and above in China from 2011 to 2020 as samples, and empirically test the impact and spatial spillover effect of traditional culture on urban green innovation. This study finds that: (1) Traditional culture can improve the local green innovation and positively impact the green innovation in neighboring cities by radiation effect, and the conclusion remains valid after robustness tests; (2) Talent flow and data flow negatively moderate the positive impact of traditional culture on green innovation in local cities. In addition, from a dynamic perspective, traditional culture has a negative impact on green innovation in neighboring cities because of the siphon effect; (3) The spatial spillover effect of traditional culture on urban green innovation shows distinct heterogeneity due to the different regions and whether it is a low-carbon pilot city. This study verifies the important value of Chinese traditional culture in urban sustainable development, which is of great significance for the protection and inheritance of traditional culture and the improvement of urban green innovation.
资源稀缺和环境污染问题已成为全人类共同面临的巨大挑战。为了解决这些问题，提升城市绿色创新能力至关重要。本研究以 2011-2020 年中国 189 个地级及以上城市为样本，实证检验了传统文化对城市绿色创新的影响及其空间溢出效应。研究发现：（1）传统文化能够提升本地绿色创新水平，并通过辐射效应正向影响邻近城市的绿色创新，且在稳健性检验后结论依然成立；（2）人才流动和数据流动会负向调节传统文化对本地城市绿色创新的正向影响。此外，从动态视角来看，由于虹吸效应，传统文化对邻近城市绿色创新具有负面影响；（3）传统文化对城市绿色创新的空间溢出效应由于区域和低碳试点城市的不同而呈现出显著异质性。本研究验证了中国传统文化在城市可持续发展中的重要价值，这对于传统文化的保护和传承以及城市绿色创新水平的提升具有重要意义。
