{"title":"The impact of innovation-driven industrial clusters on urban carbon emission efficiency: Empirical evidence from China","authors":"Hongyu Lu , Zhuang Yao , Zhao Cheng , Anna Xue","doi":"10.1016/j.scs.2025.106220","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Innovative industrial clusters can leverage economies of scale and synergies, thereby providing new impetus for enhancing carbon emission efficiency. This study, based on panel data from Chinese cities between 2010 and 2021, views the pilot policy of innovative industrial clusters as a quasi-natural experiment, using a difference-in-differences model to identify the causal relationship between innovative industrial clusters and carbon emission efficiency. The findings indicate that: (1) Innovative industrial clusters can significantly improve carbon emission efficiency, and this conclusion holds under multiple robustness checks; (2) Innovative industrial clusters enhance carbon emission efficiency by upgrading industrial structures, accelerating technological progress, and improving transportation efficiency; (3) The positive impact of innovative industrial clusters on carbon emission efficiency is more pronounced in cities with non-resource-based economies, higher administrative levels, greater marketization, relatively well-developed digital infrastructure, and stronger intellectual property protection; (4) Innovative industrial clusters exert a positive spatial spillover effect on carbon emission efficiency. This study is the first to examine the role of innovative industrial cluster policies in improving carbon emission efficiency, providing valuable insights and experiences for advancing sustainable development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48659,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Cities and Society","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 106220"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Sustainable Cities and Society","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210670725000976","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
The impact of innovation-driven industrial clusters on urban carbon emission efficiency: Empirical evidence from China
Innovative industrial clusters can leverage economies of scale and synergies, thereby providing new impetus for enhancing carbon emission efficiency. This study, based on panel data from Chinese cities between 2010 and 2021, views the pilot policy of innovative industrial clusters as a quasi-natural experiment, using a difference-in-differences model to identify the causal relationship between innovative industrial clusters and carbon emission efficiency. The findings indicate that: (1) Innovative industrial clusters can significantly improve carbon emission efficiency, and this conclusion holds under multiple robustness checks; (2) Innovative industrial clusters enhance carbon emission efficiency by upgrading industrial structures, accelerating technological progress, and improving transportation efficiency; (3) The positive impact of innovative industrial clusters on carbon emission efficiency is more pronounced in cities with non-resource-based economies, higher administrative levels, greater marketization, relatively well-developed digital infrastructure, and stronger intellectual property protection; (4) Innovative industrial clusters exert a positive spatial spillover effect on carbon emission efficiency. This study is the first to examine the role of innovative industrial cluster policies in improving carbon emission efficiency, providing valuable insights and experiences for advancing sustainable development.
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Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) is an international journal that focuses on fundamental and applied research to promote environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities. The journal welcomes cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary research in various areas, including:
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7. Environmental Footprint accounting and management;
8. Urban agriculture and forestry;
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19. Water footprint reduction and urban water distribution, harvesting, treatment, reuse and management;
20. Waste reduction and recycling;
21. Wastewater collection, treatment and recycling;
22. Smart, clean and healthy transportation systems and infrastructure;
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