Enhancing green innovation quality through the integration of digital technology into green technology: Evidence from China

IF 5.5 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Economic Modelling Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-07-20 DOI:10.1016/j.econmod.2026.107771

Hongjuan Yu, Anna Shi, Yuchen Hao, Shuang Zhao

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Abstract

The integration of green and digital technologies has emerged as a key path to enhancing corporate innovation quality. We focus on Chinese A-share firms (2010 – 2023) and investigate how the integration of digital technology into green technology affects the green innovation quality. Our findings demonstrate that integrating digital technology into green technology markedly enhances the quality of green innovation. This integration exerts direct and spillover effects, and further exerts an indirect influence via breakthrough green innovation capability and green collaborative innovation capability. We conduct heterogeneity analysis based on strategic tripod theory, finding that integration's positive effects are more significant under stricter environmental regulation and in state-owned enterprises. Effects are also stronger in firms with lower organizational inertia and higher digital technology accumulation. The integration markedly improves the quality of green innovation in industries with less technological competition pressure and in high-pollution industries.

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通过数字技术融入绿色技术提升绿色创新质量：来自中国的证据

绿色技术与数字技术的融合已成为提升企业创新质量的重要途径。本文以2010 - 2023年中国a股公司为研究对象，探讨数字技术与绿色技术的融合对绿色创新质量的影响。研究结果表明，将数字技术与绿色技术相结合可以显著提高绿色创新的质量。这种整合产生直接效应和溢出效应，并通过突破性绿色创新能力和绿色协同创新能力产生间接影响。我们基于战略三脚架理论进行异质性分析，发现在环境监管趋严和国有企业中，整合的正向效应更为显著。在组织惯性较低、数字技术积累较高的企业中，这种效应也更强。在技术竞争压力较小的行业和高污染行业，整合显著提高了绿色创新的质量。

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Economic Modelling ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

8.00

自引率

10.60%

发文量

295

期刊介绍： Economic Modelling fills a major gap in the economics literature, providing a single source of both theoretical and applied papers on economic modelling. The journal prime objective is to provide an international review of the state-of-the-art in economic modelling. Economic Modelling publishes the complete versions of many large-scale models of industrially advanced economies which have been developed for policy analysis. Examples are the Bank of England Model and the US Federal Reserve Board Model which had hitherto been unpublished. As individual models are revised and updated, the journal publishes subsequent papers dealing with these revisions, so keeping its readers as up to date as possible.