The dataset of green innovation peer effect of Chinese manufacturing industry

This paper explores the effect of peer firms on green innovation activities of the Chinese A-share listed firms in the manufacturing industry from 2011 to 2020 and investigates influencing factors of peer effect. The main findings are as follows. First, there is a peer effect in making green innovation decisions. Second, industry competition has a positive moderating effect on the peer effect of green innovation. Third, digital financial inclusion and government intervention both promote the peer effect of green innovation. The peer effect is more significant when the region with a high degree of digital financial inclusion. But the peer effect has no significant difference between regions with different degrees of government intervention. The dataset is about peer effect of green innovation of Chinese manufacturing firms. This data describes the raw and processed information between 2011 and 2020 in Chinese manufacturing industry. A valid sample of 782 firms was collected, covering twenty-one manufacturing industries. The data involves the green innovation patents, competition pressure, and other indicators of the sampling firms, and digital financial inclusion, government intervention indicators of the regions where the firm is located. In this data article, we also briefly present the subject area, background of data source, scale of data, value of data, and main methods used to analyze the data.