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BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 2021-2037Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bse.2730
Keywords
climate change; economic growth; environmental policy; green growth; sustainable innovation; sustainable technology transfer
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The study examines the role of sustainable technology transfer and innovation in green growth, finding that they promote both green growth and economic growth. This provides new insights into the debate on green growth versus economic growth and offers political and managerial implications.
A concern with the mitigation of climate change cuts a transversal line across economic agents, epitomized by two contradictory viewpoints. Some defend that green growth can be achieved without harming economic growth; others argue that it is not possible to respect sustainability if intensive consumption of goods continues to foster economic growth. Our research aims to analyze the role that sustainable technology transfer and sustainable innovations play in green growth and ascertain the impact of green growth on economic growth. We use aggregated country-level data provided by the OECD, including national accounts, population, and environment statistics (including patents) between 1990 and 2013 for 32 countries, corresponding to an unbalanced panel of 591 observations. We estimate econometric models based on dynamic panel methodologies to capture differences that exist over time. The results show that sustainable technology transfer and sustainable innovation promote green growth, which in turn positively impacts economic growth. We contribute new insight to the green growth versus economic growth debate and provide several political and management implications.
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