Green growth and innovation in the Global South: a systematic literature review

Figures & data

Figure 1. Comparison of research on green growth, innovation, and policy.

Note: The blue bars show the number of articles focused on any country, while the orange bars show the articles with a Global South country focus. ‘Narrow’, ‘weak’, and ‘strong’ are the interpretations of the Porter Hypothesis. ‘Green IP’ is Green Industrial Policy; ‘PH/Innovation’ means Porter Hypothesis and innovation effects; ‘PH/Renewables’ means Porter Hypothesis and renewable energy.

Table 1. Corpus 1 and Corpus 2 (developing countries) literature data.

Search Theme	Corpus 1 (all)^a	Corpus 2 (developing countries)	% Developing Countries
Green Growth	8635	495^3	5.7%
Green Industrial Policy	8140	457	5.6%
Lead Markets	4127	256	6.2%
First-Mover	851	49	5.8%
Innovation-and-export	820	80	9.8%
Porter Hypothesis	6236	245	3.9%
PH (W,N,S,N-S) ^2	1898	76	4%
PH /renewable energy	32	32	7.7%
PH /Innovation	1309	80	6.5%
—	—	—	—
Total	32048	1770	5.5%

^a This table shows the number of articles for each search theme and corpus, followed by the percent of articles represented by a Global South research focus. All duplicates were removed in the final merged sample. ²Weak, narrow, strong and narrowly-strong versions searched separately, then combined. ³Green Growth is removed from the final Corpus 2 aggregated sample because it largely overlaps with green industrial strategy/policy.

Figure 2. Corpus 2 Developing countries co-citation analysis.

Note: The articles displayed are from the co-citation analysis with developing country research focus (Corpus 2). Minimum 10 citations per article threshold. Lewis (2007), Binz et al. (2017), and Huber (2008) demonstrate the greatest centrality in the network.

Figure 3. Corpus 2 Developing countries bibliographic coupling, clustering display.

Note: The articles displayed are from the bibliographic coupling analysis with developing country research focus (Corpus 2). Minimum 10 citations per article threshold, link analysis.

Figure 4. Corpus 2 Developing countries bibliographic coupling, overlay (yearly) display.

Note: This image mirrors Figure 3, but shows the temporal trends (prior to 2010 is blue, 2010/2015 teal and 2019/2020 yellow).

Figure 5. Automated keyword analysis across Corpus 2.

Note: Automated keyword analysis the developing country Corpus 2.

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