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As a panacea for solving the negative externalities of innovation, responsible innovation has attracted widespread attention from all walks of life. The prior research has studied the concepts, methods, applications, and influence factors of responsible innovation. However, few studies have investigated the driving role of innovative factor inputs in the process of enterprise responsible innovation. Our study using input and output data is based on Chinese industrial enterprises from 2011 to 2015 to measure the growth drivers of enterprise responsible innovation by building a nonparametric decomposition framework. The results are as follows: first, at the national level, the contribution of factor input to the responsible innovation of industrial enterprises is higher than that of total factor productivity. Second, at the regional level, R&D capital and personnel investment have promoted the growth of industrial enterprises responsible innovation in the eastern region, and the responsible innovation of industrial enterprises in the central and western regions mainly comes from R&D capital investment. Third, at the provincial level, the responsible innovation model of industrial enterprises in most provinces has changed from extensive to intensive. The increase in total factor productivity is the main driving force for the transformation of the industrial enterprises' responsible innovation model.
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This study is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 71734001;71934001); the National Social Science Foundation Project (Grant Nos. 17BGL266); Program for Liaoning innovative talents in University (Grant Nos. WR2019003); Liaoning Provincial Economic and Social Development Project (Grant Nos. 2021lslybkt-008); Fundamental Research Funds of Dalian University of Technology (Grant Nos. DUT21RW209).
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This study is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 71734001;71934001); the National Social Science Foundation Project (Grant Nos. 17BGL266); Program for Liaoning innovative talents in University (Grant Nos. WR2019003); Liaoning Provincial Economic and Social Development Project (Grant Nos. 2021lslybkt-008); Fundamental Research Funds of Dalian University of Technology (Grant Nos. DUT21RW209).
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Pan, X., Yuan, S., Song, M. et al. Decomposition of the growth drivers and its spatial distribution characteristics of responsible innovation: A study of Chinese industrial enterprises. Asia Pac J Manag (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-022-09821-0
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