Green Innovation under the Constraint of Economic Growth Targets: Evidence from Prefecture Level Cities in China

The demand for sustainable economic growth highlights the trade off between environmental and targets. From perspective of target (EGT) management green innovation (GI) practice, in this study, we constructed dynamic panel, spatial Dubin, quantile, threshold models to measure impact EGT on GI using panel data 284 prefecture cities China from 2006 2018. results show that has a negative GI, which is characterized by dynamic, superposition, spatial, nonlinear effects; there remarkable heterogeneity different regions, development stages, urban characteristics, empirical conclusion still credible under many robustness tests. We also studied heterogeneous targets with characteristics innovation. This study puts forward policy implications two perspectives: optimizing top-level design maximizing multi-objective accountability.