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Abstract
<p class="first" id="d1152778e93">As a typical example of an innovative governance
environment, innovative city has
become the focus of political and academic circles. Discussing the green innovation
effect of this policy is beneficial in providing decision support for enhancing urban
green innovation capability and solving the dilemma of urban resources. Based on data
from 241 cities in China from 2005 to 2017, this paper takes innovative city construction
as a "quasi-natural experiment" and uses the difference-in-differences method to empirically
study the impact of China's innovative city construction on urban green innovation.
The results show that innovative urban construction: has a positive effect on improving
urban green innovation, and that this effect will gradually increase with time; promotes
urban green innovation by expanding the scope of technology application, improving
the efficiency of resource allocation and promoting the adjustment of industrial structure;
and presents heterogeneity in cities' location, size and hierarchy. Finally, this
paper proposes that the government should promote innovative policies in an orderly
manner on the basis of following the principle of adapting measures to local conditions,
as well as incorporating green innovation performance into the evaluation system for
innovative city construction.
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