智慧城市建设赋能企业绿色技术创新

Smart city construction empowers green technology innovation for enterprises

十九大报告提出构建绿色技术创新体系,实现新常态下中国经济发展模式向绿色集约型转变。文章以中国2012年起实施的三批智慧城市试点政策为准自然实验,基于2007~2019年中国地级市与上市公司匹配数据进行多期DID回归。研究发现,智慧城市政策通过提高绿色金融水平和环境规制强度,显著促进了企业绿色技术创新,从而为企业绿色技术创新赋能。

The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to build a green technology innovation system to realize the transformation of China's economic development model to a green intensive under the new normal.This article takes the three batches of smart city pilot policies implemented in China in 2012 as quasi-natural experiments,and performs multi-period DID re gression based on the matching data of China's prefecture-level cities and listed companies from 2007 to 2019.The study found that smart city policies have significantly promoted corporate green technological innovation by improving the level of green finance and the intensity of environmental regulations,thereby empowering corporate green technological innovation.