数字化能否赋能工业企业绿色创新?——来自中国上市企业的经验证据

Can Digitalization Empower Green Innovation in Industrial Enterprises?:Empirical Evidence from China′s Listed Enterprises

厘清数字化如何赋能工业企业绿色创新,对于推动数字经济与绿色经济深度融合,实现经济高质量发展具有重要意义。基于2012—2021年中国A股工业上市企业面板数据,采用文本分析法对企业数字化水平进行测度,并结合绿色专利数据,探究工业企业数字化对绿色创新的影响及其作用机理。结果表明:1)企业数字化显著促进了绿色创新,在缓解内生性问题并通过一系列稳健性检验后结果依然显著;2)与资源型城市、中部地区和非国有小企业相比,非资源型城市、东西部地区和国有大企业数字化赋能绿色创新的效果更加突出;3)企业数字化可以通过增加技术创新投入、提高全要素生产率和盈利水平来促进绿色创新。研究结论为更好地推动企业数字化转型和绿色创新,实现数字经济与绿色经济协调发展提供了理论依据与实践支撑。

Clarifying how digitalization enables green innovation of enterprises is of great significance for promoting the deep integration of digital economy and green economy and achieving high-quality economic development.Based on the panel data of China′s A-share industrial listed enterprises from 2012 to 2021,this paper uses text analysis to build digital indicators and combines green patent data to explore the impact of enterprise digitalization on green innovation and its mechanism.The results show that:1)The digitalization of enterprises have a positive and significant impact on green innovation.The results are still significant after alleviating endogenous problems and passing a series of robustness tests;2)Compared with resource-based cities,central regions,and non-state-owned small enterprises,non-resource-based cities,eastern and western regions,and state-owned large enterprises are featured by stronger prominence of the effect of enabling green innovation by digitalization;3)Enterprise digitalization can promote green innovation by increasing investment in technological innovation,improving total factor productivity(TFP)and profitability.The research conclusions provide a theoretical basis and practical support for better promoting enterprises′digital transformation and green innovation,and realizing the coordinated development of digital economy and green economy.