Advancing energy transition is a key task for accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. Innovation is both an intrinsic requirement for promoting high-quality energy development and a crucial focal point for achieving energy transition. Using data from 282 major Chinese cities and treating the national innovative city pilot policy as a quasi-experiment, this study employs an overlapping difference-in-differences approach to examine the impact and mechanism of innovation-driven policies on energy transition. Findings reveal that the national innovative city policy has facilitated urban energy transition. Specifically, this policy achieves energy transition through mechanisms such as promoting green consumption by reducing urban energy intensity, enhancing green innovation by guiding innovation investment directions, and fostering green employment by optimizing industrial composition. Furthermore, the policy’s impact on energy transition yields greater marginal effects in non-resource-based cities, cities with high R&D expenditure ratios, cities with smaller industrial output scales, and cities lacking renewable energy resources. Additionally, energy transition improves urban environmental pollution and reduces industrial waste discharge. The findings not only deepen understanding of innovation’s pivotal role in driving urban energy transition but also offer policy insights for cities seeking to leverage innovation in advancing energy transformation.
NIU Jing
,
NI Meng-ying
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LIU Zi-min
. Innovation - driven policies and urban energy transition[J]. Urban Problems, 2025
, 360(7)
: 82
-93
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DOI: 10.13239/j.bjsshkxy.cswt.250708
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