Implementation of enterprises’ green technology innovation under market-based environmental regulation: An evolutionary game approach

• Published in: Journal of environmental management Vol. 308; p. 114570
• Main Authors: Li, Mengyuan, Gao, Xin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 15.04.2022
• Subjects: business enterprises; carbon; China; decision making; environmental law; environmental management; Evolutionary game model; finance; Green technology innovation; Green technology trading market; Incentive and penalty; Inventions; Market-based environmental regulation; prices; sustainable technology; technology; China; Market-based environmental regulation; Evolutionary game model; Green technology innovation; Incentive and penalty; Green technology trading market
• ISSN: 0301-4797; 1095-8630; 1095-8630
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114570

With the increasing carbon neutral targets claimed by responsible countries, many research has been done to investigate the impact of environmental regulation on green technology innovation (GTI). However, there still remains a gap at micro level that takes enterprise as research subject to figure out an effective regulatory mechanism that supports the development of GTI. Since the integration of technology and finance is the main trend in future progress of GTI, it is meaningful to study the decision-making behavior and influencing factors of heterogenous enterprises and banks under market-based environmental regulation policies. This paper established a tripartite evolutionary game model among two types of enterprises with distinct Research & Development (R&D) ability and banks. The results show that: (1) the scenario when subsidy to enterprises is greater than to banks leads to a better situation; (2) penalty has more significant influence on enterprises than subsidies at the early stage, and enterprises' strategic choices of independent R&D is more reliable on subsidies; (3) when the price gap between different levels of technology increases, enterprises are inclined to continuously invest in green R&D, while it will restrain enterprises’ technology introduction behavior. •Market-based environmental regulation contains subsidy, penalty and trading market.•That subsidy to enterprises is greater than to banks leads to a better scenario to stimulate GTI.•Penalty has more significant influence on enterprises than subsidy at the early stage.•Enterprises' strategic choice of independent R&D is more reliable on the subsidy.•There exists a tradeoff between independent R&D and technology introduction when pricing.