关键词: 环境创新, 环境政策, 经济绩效, environmental innovation, environmental policy, economic performance

Abstract: Based on 225 surveys of manufacturing enterprises in Zhejiang province, this paper used multiple regression analysis to explore the effect of environmental policy, enterprise background characteristics and their interaction term on the level of firm’s environmental innovation, the impact of environmental innovation on firm’s economic performance, as well as examined the mediator role of environmental innovation. The results showed that: firm’s environmental product innovation and process innovation were generally higher than 3 , but lower than 4; environmental policy stringency and flexibility had significant positive effect on firm’s environmental product innovation and process innovation; the interactive term of private ownership and policy stringency, advanced technology industry and policy stringency, environment policy flexibility and firm age all had positive impact on product innovation; environmental product innovation played a completely mediating role between environment policy flexibility and the economic performance of enterprises.