环境规制与技术创新:制度情境的调节效应

Environmental Regulation and Technological Innovation:Moderating Effects of Institutional Contexts

本文分析并检验了环境规制对探索式和开发式两种技术创新方式的权变影响.通过匹配多重来源数据发现:地方政府加强环境规制有助于刺激企业从事探索式创新,而对开发式创新的激励不明显.进一步地,作为政策或规则解读和执行的主体,地方官员和规制机构会显著影响环境规制的执行效果.以官员更替刻画的规制不确定性会减弱环境规制对创新的刺激效应;以与规制机构打交道时间刻画的规制"官僚化"同样会削弱环境规制的正面效果.本文不仅丰富了探索式和开发式创新的前置因素研究,而且解释了有关环境规制与创新关系研究结论的不一致.

It examined the contingent effects of environmental regulations on the two types of innovation approaches,namely exploration and exploitation. By matching multiple sources of secondary data,it finds that firms generate strong incentives to pursue exploration but not exploitation when facing stringent environmental regulations. Furthermore,the effectiveness of environmental regulations is contingent on institutional contexts. Uncertainties caused by the change of local officials may undermine the positive influence of regulations on innovation. Likewise,the ＂bureaucratization＂make environmental regulations less effective. It extends the research on antecedents of exploration and exploitation,and also reconciles the inconsistency of prior findings.