Financial development, government R&D subsidies and green innovation

Abstract

In the low carbon economic era, green innovation has become an important basis for an enterprise to obtain and maintain a sustained competitive advantage.In paper, explores the path of green innovation using the panel data of 30 regions in China from 2008 to 2014.It finds that financial development has heterogeneity and different dimensions of financial development have different effects on green innovation of enterprises. That is, financial development structure has a negative impact on enterprise green innovation, and financial development efficiency has a positive impact on green innovation. Howere, the impact between financial development scale and green innovation is not significant. In addition, the study also finds that government R&D subsidies has no significantly effect on green innovation. Finally, this paper aims to provide the government and enterprises some theoretical and practical guidance to carry out policy-making of green innovation.