This research examines the effect of terrorism on green technological innovation in renewable energy technologies with a panel of 87 economies between 1991 and 2017. We find that economies respond with less green innovation in renewable energy technologies when experiencing severe terrorist attacks, especially in OECD countries. Among them, wind energy green innovation witnesses the greatest collapse when facing the threat of terrorist attacks. Terrorist attacks mainly repress green innovation in renewable energy technologies of economies whose green innovation in renewable energy is lower, while having little effects on economies with strong green innovation performance. The results also show that the repressing influence of terrorist attacks on green innovation is relevant to economies with larger high-tech exports and manufacturing fundamentals. Our findings suggest that terrorism is not simply disruptive to economic performance, but also hurts one driver of sustainable growth - green innovation.

本研究在 1991 年至 2017 年期间与 87 个经济体的小组探讨了恐怖主义对可再生能源技术绿色技术创新的影响。我们发现，当经历严重的恐怖袭击时，尤其是在经合组织国家，经济体对可再生能源技术的绿色创新做出了较少的反应。其中，风能绿色创新在面临恐怖袭击威胁时崩溃最大。恐怖袭击主要压制可再生能源绿色创新较低的经济体的可再生能源技术绿色创新，而对绿色创新表现强劲的经济体影响不大。结果还表明，恐怖袭击对绿色创新的抑制作用与具有较大高科技出口和制造业基础的经济体有关。