关键词: 数字经济, 绿色创新, 模糊集定性比较分析, 驱动模式

Abstract: Under the background of dual carbon, facing the dual pressure of serious resource consumption and environmental pollution, how to achieve the green development model of “not only gold and silver mountains, but also green water and green mountains” has become the main goal of economic development in various regions. With digital technology as the driving force and digital knowledge and information as the key production factors, the digital economy has an increasingly prominent enabling effect on green innovation. Therefore, how to give full play to the innovation enabling effect of the digital economy to improve the regional green innovation has become an important issue to be solved urgently in all regions to balance the sustainable and healthy economic development and ecological environmental protection. From the four dimensions of “digital resources-digital technology-digital industry-digital environment”, this paper builds an analytical framework of the impact of digital economy on green innovation at the macro level. Taking 30 provinces (municipalities and districts) in China as a case study, this paper adopts fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method to explore the driving model of regional green innovation influenced by digital economy.
The study draws the following conclusions.(1)The dimension condition variables of digital resources, technology, industry and environment cannot constitute the necessary conditions to drive regional green innovation alone. (2)There are five driving modes of high-level regional green innovation, namely resource-industry-environment leading technology synergy, resource-industry leading technology and environment synergy, resource-industry-environment leading, resource-industry-environment leading, resource-industry leading and technology-environment leading. The driving modes leading to low green innovation level include resource-environment deficiency and resource-technology-environment deficiency. (3)Different combinations of digital resources, technologies, industries and environment can enhance the regional green innovation through equivalent substitution in a way of “different paths and the same goal”.
The paper puts forward the following suggestions. Firstly, differentiated promotion strategies should be implemented for regions with high green innovation with different driving models. For resource-industry oriented areas, the integration of digital technology and related industries should be strengthened. At the same time, such regions should create a good digital consumption and digital government environment to provide support and guarantee for regional green innovation. Secondly, non-high green innovation regions should set development goals according to their own endowment conditions. For example, such areas should focus on improving digital resources and digital industries, and attach importance to attracting high-quality digital talent resources. Thirdly, all regions should analyze the advantages and disadvantages of regional industrial development and resources and environment, and fully consider the relationship between the combination of various conditions, so as to effectively stimulate the endogenous power of innovation subjects and improve the regional green innovation.

Key words: digital economy; green innovation; fsQCA; driving mode