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Exploring the role of artificial intelligence as a catalyst for energy technology innovation
Artificial intelligence (AI) has a strong spillover effect and acts as an essential propellant for advancements in technology and development. Using A-share listed enterprises between 2007 and 2022 as the sample, we assess the influence of AI on energy technology innovation (ETI). Our findings highlight that AI can promote ETI primarily by improving the human capital structure and encouraging enterprises to increase research and development (R&D) expenditure. This effect is more pronounced in enterprises with low-carbon transition strategy, those located in regions with abundant resource endowments, and those situated in clean energy base areas. Moreover, the study reveals that AI can positively affect ETI and contribute to enhanced enterprise environmental performance. The findings provide more thorough understanding of the critical role of AI in energy and innovation, offering practical recommendations for enterprises to leverage AI in boosting energy efficiency and lowering pollutant emissions, thereby aligning with as well as encouraging the attainment of carbon neutrality and peaking targets set by China.
期刊介绍:
Energy Economics is a field journal that focuses on energy economics and energy finance. It covers various themes including the exploitation, conversion, and use of energy, markets for energy commodities and derivatives, regulation and taxation, forecasting, environment and climate, international trade, development, and monetary policy. The journal welcomes contributions that utilize diverse methods such as experiments, surveys, econometrics, decomposition, simulation models, equilibrium models, optimization models, and analytical models. It publishes a combination of papers employing different methods to explore a wide range of topics. The journal's replication policy encourages the submission of replication studies, wherein researchers reproduce and extend the key results of original studies while explaining any differences. Energy Economics is indexed and abstracted in several databases including Environmental Abstracts, Fuel and Energy Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, GEOBASE, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Economic Literature, INSPEC, and more.