نیروی محرکه نوآوری فناوری در کارایی استفاده از انرژی در صنایع نوظهور راهبردی Driving Effect of Technology Innovation on Energy Utilization Efficiency in Strategic Emerging Industries

1. Introduction Energy is indispensable for the economic development of various countries in the world. It contributes to economic development and the improvement of technical efficiency in the short run (Birgit et al., 2016). In the past, high energy consumption resulted in high investment and high pollution. The long-standing low energy-utilization efficiency and high environment pollution have had a strong impact, particularly on economic development (Sanford, 2015; Francesco et al., 2016). Strategic emerging industries are the new breakthroughs and growth poles for driving regional economic development (Dan, 2016). However, strategic emerging industries still face multiple constraints if they are expected to be the leading industries or pillar industries. The developmental trajectories of traditional industries lack the critical core technologies for industrial development (Florian, 2015). A good mastery of industrial core technologies is crucial to the development of strategic emerging industries; energy utilization efficiency must be rapidly improved by the industrial technological innovation so that the industrial growth and expansion are also rapidly promoted (Jagjit et al., 2016; Hans et al., 2016). However, the driving effect of technological innovation on energy utilization efficiency is mainly theoretical, empirical studies are still lacking. From this new perspective, the paper analyzes the influencing relationship between technological innovation and energy utilization efficiency of strategic emerging industries, gets the positive and negative influencing factors. The technological innovation model can be proposed to improve energy utilization efficiency, it is of great theoretical significance and practical value. The extensive development mode leads to excessive consumption of energy, exhaustion of limited energy, and deterioration of the beautiful environment (Tommy et al., 2016). Thus, various countries in the world need a new growth pattern, i.e., an intensive growth pattern. In this historical reformation, various countries propose developing strategic emerging industries, accelerating industrial structure adjustments and upgrades, transforming the economic growth pattern, and leading and guiding the economic society to achieve long-term development (Li-yan Sun et al., 2017; C. Vasanthakumar et al., 2016). To achieve such a transformation, it is imperative to strengthen the technology-innovation construction of strategic emerging industries, attach importance to technological-innovation issues, and improve the labor productivity and technological innovation efficiency based on the role of technological innovation in driving the energy-utilization efficiency of strategic emerging industries (Gustav et al., 2016). Technological innovation is one of the critical impetuses for strategic emerging industries to improve energy utilization efficiency (Ulf Andersson et al., 2016; Piret, 2015). Technology innovation not only has a strong impact on the production modes of strategic emerging industries, but also plays roles in reforming the technological paradigm and continuously developing ecological production modes and ecological technologies (Bronwyn and Christian, 2013). To create sustainable utilization of energy needs means that strategic emerging industries must raise energy-utilization efficiency by relying on technological innovation to promote the economic transition and development when achieving energy conservation and emission reduction (Kassahun and Toshio, 2017; Wolfgang et al., 2016). However, the impetuses for traditional economic and social development in the world are high energy consumption and high investment rather than the improvement of technological innovation (Masachika, 2015).