Digital Economy and Carbon Neutral Technological Innovation

Abstract

To achieve sustainable development, improve global competitiveness, promote ecological civilization building, and ease economic transition and upgrading, carbon neutral technical innovation is essential. This paper examines the effect with panel data from 270 Chinese from 2006 to 2022, as well as multidimensional heterogeneity analysis. The conclusions are as follows. (1) Digital economy can promote carbon neutral technological innovation. (2) The mechanism test demonstrates how scientific and technological production and regional innovation potential might contribute to carbon neutral technology innovation in the digital economy. (3) Heterogeneity analysis shows that based on the three-dimensional city attributes of “location-feature-scale”, the research results show significant differences across different cities. The research conclusions provide a certain reference value for further strengthening and promoting carbon neutral technology innovation.