Research Article

The Signal Effect of New Energy Vehicles Promotion on Enterprise Innovation

Table 1

Definition of variables.

Type of variablesVariableDefinition

Dependent variablesRadical innovation (Rad)The number of patent applications for inventions per year (10,000)
Incremental innovation (Inc)The number of annual utility model and design applications (10,000)
External technology introduction (Ext)The increase in intangible assets and goodwill (100,000,000)

Independent variablesPromotion of subsidies (Treat ∗ Post)Equal to 1 if NEV enterprises enter the promotion catalogue and 0 otherwise

Intermediate variablesCorporate profits (Profit)Net profit (100,000,000)
Financing constraints (Fin)Interest expenses/current liabilities

Control variablesEnterprise age (Age)Ln (year of observation-year of establishment)
Enterprise scale (Size)Ln (total assets)
Debt to asset ratio (Lev)Ln (total liabilities/total assets100)
Government subsidy (Sub)Ln (government subsidy/operating income100)
State ownership (Sta)Ln (number of shares held by the state/total share capital100)