How does the Innovation Ecosystem Fueled by Blockchain Affect the Efficiency and Internal Balance of Green Technology Innovation?——A Configuration Study Based on the Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis(fsQCA)
The"dual-carbon"goal has put forward new requirements for the green and low-carbon transformation of industrial structure and production methods.New digital technology such as blockchain is an important driving force for the flow and convergence of industrial data elements,the reorganization and optimization of green innovation ecosystems,and the realization of industrial transformation.First,study constructs a theoretical framework of"government-mar-ket-enterprise".And then,based on the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis(fsQCA)method,focusing on 29 provinces in China,study analyzes the complex causal relationship between inno-vation ecosystem fueled by blockchain components,such as policy demand,government interven-tion,technology market activity,foreign direct investment,blockchain technology application and enterprise scale with industrial green technology innovation system efficiency(GTIE)and balance(GTISB).The results of the study show that:(1)government institutional environment that suit-able for high GTIE and high GTISB are opposite,but high degree of blockchain application and active technology market play an important role in promoting both;for small and medium-sized enterprises,a common pattern of non-high efficiency or non-high system balance is not found;(2)there are 2 driving paths for industrial GTIE,"government-network-driven"and"business environ-ment-driven";2 inhibitory paths,"policy-scale-inhibitory"and"technology-network-inhibitory";(3)there are 2 driving paths and 1 inhibitory path for GTISB.Study enriches the understanding of the GTISB under the application of digital technology such as blockchain,and provides useful in-sights for boosting high-quality development of the digital economy and for promoting local gov-ernments to form a differentiated path to enhance industrial green technology innovation.
Green technology innovation efficiencyInnovation balanceDigital technologyTwo-stage network SBM-DEA modelFuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis(fsQCA)