Pollution spillover and regional environmental technology innovation

Abstract

Abstract: From the perspective of pollution spillover, the paper interprets simply the across-regional strategic behaviors on cross-regional pollution abatement, and derives the spatial Tobit specification with pollution spillover. Moreover, in controlling the externality of technology, we isolate the impacts of pollution abatement on environmental technology innovation using the data of Chinese 31 provincial environmental patents. The results show that there is not only a significant positive direct effect of pollution abatement on environmental technology innovation, but also a non-significantly negative spillover effects. Combining these two effects makes it to be a non-significantly positive effect, which indicates that ignoring pollution spillover may overstate the role of pollution abatement in technology innovation.

Key words: pollution spillover, environmental technology innovation, pollution abatement, Spatial Tobit Model

CLC Number:

F062.6

Wang Wenpu. Pollution spillover and regional environmental technology innovation[J]. Science Research Management, 2015, 36(9): 19-25.

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