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Measurement Research on the Influence of China’s Provincial Technological Innovation Capacity upon Green Economy Development

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Based on the global entropy method to evaluate the technological innovation ability and the development level of green economy in Chinese provinces from 2006 to 2015, this paper uses partial least squares (PLS) method to measure the influence of various components of technological innovation ability on the development level of green economy in China. The empirical results show that at the provincial level in China, technological innovation capability has a significant positive impact on the development level of green economy. Among them, the technology input ability has the strongest influence on the development of green economy, followed by the technology output and support ability, while the technology diffusion ability has not formed a significant positive influence on the development level of green economy. The research further finds that the improvement of technology input ability can effectively promote the improvement of technology output, technology support, and technology diffusion ability. For the sake of improving the provincial development level of green economy of China, it is necessary for China’s provinces to enhance their technology input ability and improve their technological innovation resources allocation efficiency.

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This work was supported by these projects: Fuji-an Science and Technology Association Science And Technology Think Tank Major Project (Project No.FJKX-ZD1401) and Philosophy and Social Science Innovation Team Project of Fuzhou University (17TD06).

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    Gang Ding, Xinyu Su & Rui Wang

  2. Lingnan Tourism Research Institute, Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, Guangzhou, 510320, China

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GD guided the direction and ideas of the project. XYS analyzed the data and edited the manuscript, and contributed significantly to analysis and manuscript preparation. RW contributed to data analysis. LDG helped perform the analysis with constructive discussions. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Ding, G., Su, X., Wang, R. et al. Measurement Research on the Influence of China’s Provincial Technological Innovation Capacity upon Green Economy Development. Environ Model Assess 27, 747–757 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10666-022-09837-2

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