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How Does Environmental Regulation Affect the Relationship between FDI and Technological Innovation: From the Perspective of Technology Transactions
Processes ( IF 3.5 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 , DOI: 10.3390/pr9081264 Meng Zeng , Lihang Liu , Fangyi Zhou , Yigui Xiao
Processes ( IF 3.5 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 , DOI: 10.3390/pr9081264 Meng Zeng , Lihang Liu , Fangyi Zhou , Yigui Xiao
Many studies have found that FDI can reduce the pollutant emissions of host countries. At the same time, the intensity of environmental regulation would affect the emission reduction effect of FDI in the host country. This study aims to reveal the internal mechanisms of this effect. Specifically, this paper studies the impact of FDI on technological innovation in China’s industrial sectors from the perspective of technology transactions from 2001 to 2019, and then analyzes whether the intensity of environmental regulation can promote the relationship. Results indicate that FDI promotes technological innovation through technology transactions. In addition, it finds that the intensity of environmental regulation significantly positively moderates the relationship between FDI and technological innovation, which is achieved by positively moderating the FDI–technology transaction relationship. Regional heterogeneity analysis is further conducted, and results show that in the eastern and western regions of China, FDI can stimulate technological innovation within regional industrial sectors through technology trading. Moreover, environmental regulation has a significant positive regulatory effect on the above relationship, but these effects are not supported by evidence in the central region of China.
更新日期：2021-07-22
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