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The driving effect of technological innovation on green development: dynamic efficiency spatial variation

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In order to further explore the internal transmission mechanism between technological innovation and green development in manufacturing industry under the background of obvious development characteristics in the new era, this paper constructed an integrated methodology system to evaluate the internal impact mechanism of technological innovation value chain efficiency on green development efficiency based on spatial perspective. First, the Network Slack-based model and Global Malmquist-Luenberger model are constructed to reveal the internal development law of technological innovation and green development of manufacturing industry. Secondly, the spatial Dubin model is employed to analyze the impact of current development characteristics and technological innovation on green development. The results show that innovation value chain efficiency is higher than technological innovation efficiency, and economic transformation efficiency is lower than that of technological innovation value chain. During the study period, the efficiency of technological innovation value chain in the four economic regions present fluctuant growth trend, and the eastern region has the highest value. The green development efficiency in the east, central, west, and northeast regions of manufacturing industry is higher than 1, and it shows an obvious spatial agglomeration effect. Besides, the efficiency of technological innovation, information and communication technology, urbanization, and the advanced industrial structure are all conducive to the improvement of green development in manufacturing industry. This paper studies the influence mechanism of technological innovation value chain efficiency on green development based on spatial perspective and puts forward relevant countermeasures and suggestions to effectively promote green development of manufacturing industry, providing relevant theoretical research for green and high-quality development.

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This research received financial support from the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (71825006).

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  2. School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 23009, China

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Manli Cheng: conceptualization, data curation, analysis, and writing. Zongguo Wen: writing, review, and supervision. Shanlin Yang: review and supervision.

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Cheng, M., Wen, Z. & Yang, S. The driving effect of technological innovation on green development: dynamic efficiency spatial variation. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 84562–84580 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-21431-3

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