TY - JOUR
T1 - Impacts of digital government on regional eco-innovation
T2 - Moderating role of dual environmental regulations
AU - Zhao, Shuliang
AU - Teng, Linjiao
AU - Arkorful, Vincent Ekow
AU - Hu, Hui
N1 - This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Science Fund Project (No. 71701191). At the same time, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to Editors, Scott Cunningham, Mei-Chih Hu and Francesco Paolo Appio, and the two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments, which has improved the quality of this research.
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PY - 2023/11
Y1 - 2023/11
N2 - Regional eco-innovation can change the extensive development mode and promote the sustainable development of the economy and society. In the background of digital government construction, the external environment of regional eco-innovation has changed. In this study, the panel data of 125 prefecture-level cities in China from 2013 to 2020 are used to construct a fixed-effect model for empirical analysis by sorting out the relationships among digital government, regional eco-innovation, and dual environmental regulation. The following conclusions are drawn: First, digital government mainly promotes the improvement of regional eco-innovation through digital society and digital citizenship. Second, formal and informal environmental regulations have remarkable positive effects on regional eco-innovation. Third, informal environmental regulation has a positive moderating effect on digital administration and regional eco-innovation and a positive moderating effect on digital citizenship and regional eco-innovation. Fourth, formal environmental regulation cannot moderate the relationship between digital government and regional eco-innovation. This study can give priority to promoting the digital government to serve and play a role in ecological governance and environmental information disclosure, so as to provide policy opinions for the government when issuing documents supporting the improvement of regional eco-innovation, and promote the realization of a more reasonable allocation of innovation resources.
AB - Regional eco-innovation can change the extensive development mode and promote the sustainable development of the economy and society. In the background of digital government construction, the external environment of regional eco-innovation has changed. In this study, the panel data of 125 prefecture-level cities in China from 2013 to 2020 are used to construct a fixed-effect model for empirical analysis by sorting out the relationships among digital government, regional eco-innovation, and dual environmental regulation. The following conclusions are drawn: First, digital government mainly promotes the improvement of regional eco-innovation through digital society and digital citizenship. Second, formal and informal environmental regulations have remarkable positive effects on regional eco-innovation. Third, informal environmental regulation has a positive moderating effect on digital administration and regional eco-innovation and a positive moderating effect on digital citizenship and regional eco-innovation. Fourth, formal environmental regulation cannot moderate the relationship between digital government and regional eco-innovation. This study can give priority to promoting the digital government to serve and play a role in ecological governance and environmental information disclosure, so as to provide policy opinions for the government when issuing documents supporting the improvement of regional eco-innovation, and promote the realization of a more reasonable allocation of innovation resources.
KW - Regional eco-innovation
KW - Digital government
KW - Formal environmental regulations
KW - Informal environmental regulations
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U2 - 10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122842
DO - 10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122842
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85171181908
SN - 0040-1625
VL - 196
JO - Technological Forecasting and Social Change
JF - Technological Forecasting and Social Change
M1 - 122842
ER -
