Efficiency Evaluation and Influencing Factors of Green Innovation in Chinese Resource-Based Cities: Based on SBM-Undesirable and Spatial Durbin Model

Abstract

Based on data from 64 resource-based cities in China from 2010 to 2019, the efficiency of green innovation is evaluated by using the super-efficiency SBM Model with undesired outputs, while influencing factors of green innovation efficiency are analyzed by the spatial Durbin model. The results are as follows. First, as for the efficiency evaluation, the average green innovation efficiency in 62 resource-based cities from 2010 to 2019 is only 0.5689, while the green innovation efficiency of declining cities is the highest, and the growth type is the lowest in the comprehensive planning cities. Second, based on spatial self-correlation in resource-based cities, the government support, and the influencing factors including the industrial structure and economic development, have positive impacts, while the environmental regulations and opening to the outside world will inhibit the urban green innovation. Therefore, to enhance the green innovation efficiency in resource-based cities, some suggestions include formulating differentiated development strategies, forming regional cooperation mechanisms, increasing government scientific and technological support, determining the reasonable intensity of environmental regulations, setting entry barriers for polluting enterprises, and optimizing industrial structure.