ORIGINAL RESEARCH
How Does Digital Transformation Promote
Low-Carbon Technology Innovation? The Case
of Chinese Manufacturing Companies
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Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
Submission date: 2023-01-14
Final revision date: 2023-02-24
Acceptance date: 2023-03-07
Online publication date: 2023-04-24
Publication date: 2023-06-23
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2023;32(4):3145-3159
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Under the Chinese government’s carbon neutral target, digital transformation enabling low-carbon
technology innovation has become an innovative starting point to promote the new development concept.
We use data from a sample of 270 manufacturing companies in 30 provinces and cities in China, this
paper constructs an analysis framework of low-carbon technology innovation in manufacturing driven
by digital transformation with knowledge reconstruction as the intermediary variable and knowledge
sharing as the regulating variable, and empirically explores the impact of digital transformation on lowcarbon
technology innovation. It is found that the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry
has a significant positive impact on low-carbon technology innovation, and is an important power source
to promote low-carbon technology innovation. Knowledge reconstruction plays a part of intermediary
role between digital transformation and low-carbon technology innovation, and plays a key role
as a bridge. Knowledge sharing plays a positive role in digital transformation, knowledge reconstruction
and low-carbon technology innovation. The research clarified the differences and suitability in the
process of low-carbon technology innovation in the digitally enabled manufacturing industry and
answered the question of how to effectively use knowledge management to realize digitalization
and help the industrial low-carbon innovation and upgrading in the digital economy era, which has
important reference significance for guiding the green and high-quality development of the industry.