Does Artificial Intelligence Application Promote Green Innovation in Three Major City Clusters of the Yangtze River Economic Belt?Based on the Perspectives of"Digital Dividend"and"Digital Divide"
The article empirically examines the spatial effect of AI application on green innovation using the spatial Durbin model with panel data of the three major urban agglomerations of the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2011 to 2021 as a sample.The results show that:1)There is a significant positive spatial correlation between the level of AI application and the level of green innovation in the three major urban agglomerations of the Yangtze River Economic Belt,while the Moran's I value of the level of green innovation shows the characteristic of distance weakening.2)Within the three major city clusters of the Yangtze River Economic Belt,the application of AI can significantly promote the local green innovation level to generate a"digital dividend",but the negative spillover to the green innovation level of its neighbours exacerbates the"digital divide",and this relationship is significantly varied with the difference of geography and location.This relationship changes significantly with geographic location differences.In addition,further analysis reveals that there is an"inverted U-shape"relationship between the local and spillover effects of AI applications on the level of green innovation,in which the local and spillover effects are first promoted and then suppressed.3)The analysis of spatial effect decay found that the negative spillover effect of AI applications on green innovation level showed a geographic distance decay trend,and the maximum spillover decay boundary was reached at 450 km.Digital inclusive finance and digital industrial agglomeration have a significant moderating role in the"inverted U-shape"relationship between the level of AI application and the level of green innovation.Focusing on the dual perspectives of AI and green innovation,we provide theoretical support and empirical evidence for promoting China's green,low-carbon and cyclical development.
万方数据
