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Digital innovation and green productivity gap.

Yarong Sun¹, Lijun Hu¹, Fang He²

¹School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China.

Scientific Reports

|November 20, 2025

Summary

Digital innovation bridges the green productivity gap by enhancing energy efficiency and industrial structures. This study shows digital tools are key for sustainable economic performance, especially in China

Keywords:

Digital innovation Digital-green integration Green productivity gap Green total factor productivity

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Area of Science:

Environmental Economics
Technological Innovation
Sustainable Development

Background:

Persistent green productivity gap despite green innovation progress.
Limited conversion of green technology into economic productivity gains.
Need to understand digital innovation's role in sustainable economic performance.

Purpose of the Study:

Investigate digital innovation's impact on narrowing the green productivity gap.
Explore mechanisms, moderators, and regional variations of this relationship.
Promote effective transformation of green innovation into sustainable economic performance.

Main Methods:

Panel data analysis for 287 Chinese cities (2009-2022).
Empirical examination of digital innovation's influence.
Analysis of moderating factors and regional differences.

Main Results:

Digital innovation significantly reduces the green productivity gap.
Mechanisms include improved energy efficiency, optimized industrial structures, and stronger environmental regulation.
Impact is amplified in inland regions, smaller cities, central China, with private ownership and targeted R&D.

Conclusions:

Digital innovation is crucial for closing the green productivity gap.
Region-specific strategies are needed for digital-green integration.
Policy should focus on leveraging digital innovation for sustainable productivity transformation.