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Examines how eco-industrial parks boost green innovation in cities, suggesting optimized governance strategies.
Promoting green innovation agglomeration (GIA) is essential for achieving a sustainable industrial transformation, strengthening resource efficiency and advancing the low-carbon progression. However, the role of eco-industrial demonstration parks (EIDPs) in fostering GIA remains insufficiently explored. Using panel data from 297 prefecture-level cities in China for the period 2000–2022, this study systematically examines the impact of EIDPs on GIA. The empirical results show that (1) EIDPs significantly promote GIA, a conclusion that maintains its validity through robustness and endogeneity checks. (2) Heterogeneity checks indicate that the EIDPs’ effect is more evident among cities possessing high government governance capacity, high environmental preference, and high market spillover level. (3) A mechanism analysis reveals that EIDPs enhance GIA by improving green technology diversity, innovation factors’ allocation efficiency and external media coverage. Such outcomes enrich research on EIDPs and GIA and provide policy insights for optimizing EIDPs’ governance, improving green innovation resource allocation, and accelerating the formation of regionally coordinated green innovation systems.
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