Research On Decision-making Behavior And Capability Influence Mechanism Of Environmental Technology Innovation

Since China's reform and opening up, the economy of China has obtainedtremendous achievements, the comprehensive national strength in the world has beencontinually enhanced and the level of people' living is also gradually improved.However, as a global manufacturing center for China, it excessively emphasizeseconomic growth so that severe environment pollution is caused. It brings painfulenvironmental damage for China. In order to solve these environmental problems, wemust pay more attention to environmental protection, which mainly depends onstrengthening the support from capability of science and technology by innovation. So,environmental technology innovation becomes the fundamental power and the startingpoint for resolving problem, and it is necessary to keep a further and deep onresearching about it.It focuses on driving forces, innovative behavior and innovation capability ofenvironmental technology innovation in this doctoral dissertation, and showsenvironmental technology innovation originating from driving forces, getting throughindividual firm's innovative behavior (including decision-making and competition-diffusion), and then reflecting on innovation capabilities of all respects(includingvarious level of firm, region and industry). The result shows that it is great significancenot only for developing of China's environmental technology innovation capability, butalso for improving and implementing of environmental policy tools. The main resultsof this paper are organized as follows.(1) Based on time stage and dynamic programming model, the style of environmentaltechnology innovation is divided into independent innovation and imitation innovation.And how to maximize the independent innovation utility is theoretically analyzed bydepicting the relationship among firms' yield ratio, success ratio, slack resource incomeof imitation innovation behavior and independent innovation behavior. The result showsthat: first, the higher the income of slack resource, the later the time of independentinnovation and the higher growth ratio, but it is few impact on the stability of growthratio; second, the higher the yield ratio of imitation innovation behavior, the later thetime of independent innovation, the higher growth ratio and the earlier the growth ratioto enter a steady state. Moreover, the successful ratio of firms' imitation innovationbehavior has no impact on independent innovation and its growth ratio. In addition, a competitive diffusion model is constructed based on the mutual communication andlearning between firms' perspective. The result shows that firms' learning capability hasa significant effect on the speed of innovation diffusion, and if one kind ofenvironmental innovation technology intends to be popular, it should be superior toothers in the technology competition.(2) The panel data model is employed to empirically analyze the impact ofenvironmental policy, technological progress, and market structures on capability ofenvironmental technology innovation based on the data of medium and large-sizedenterprises (MLE) form30regions of China. The results show that: the environmentallaw and impact assessment have no significant impact on environmental technologyinnovation;'Three simultaneous' institution has a significant positive impact, but permitinstitution and pollution eliminating deadline have significant negative impact and evencumulative effects are obvious. Meanwhile, human capital stock is a significant positiveand maximum impact on environmental technology innovation while R&D investmentis negative. It indicates labor remains the major contribution element to China's MLEand the development model of economy is still dominant. In addition, technologymarket has a positive impact and cumulative effect. It indicates the future demandexpectation of domestic market will stimulate more innovation. The goal of most ofinterior environment-friendly products is the domestic, rather than global market.(3) The dynamic econometric model is applied to empirically analyze the impact ofenvironmental policy, technological progress, market structure and industrialcharacteristics on capability of environmental technology innovation from both productand process innovation based on the data of auto industry of China. The result showsthat: the environmental technology innovation has long-term equilibrium relationshipwith the environmental impact assessment and pollution eliminating deadline inenvironmental policy, R&D investment and human capital stock in technologicalprogress, and product sales margins in market structure. But the short-term fluctuationsof process innovation are only affected by pollution eliminating deadline and R&D.Meanwhile, environmental impact assessment, R&D investment, human capital,product sales profit are the Granger causes of product innovation and processinnovation, and pollution eliminating deadline is Granger cause of product innovation,while process innovation is the Granger cause of pollution eliminating deadline.