Disaggregating innovation for sustainable development in ASEAN: Panel evidence on the moderating role of government effectiveness
Pureheart Ogheneogaga Irikefe, Mohammad Falahat, Ahmad Danial Zainudin, Ihtisham Ullah, Nohman Khan, Bernard Ojonugwa Anthony

TL;DR
This study examines how different aspects of innovation affect sustainable development in ASEAN countries, highlighting the importance of government effectiveness in shaping outcomes.
Contribution
The study identifies specific innovation pillars that influence sustainable development and shows how government effectiveness moderates these effects.
Findings
Institutions and Infrastructure innovation pillars consistently improve SDG performance.
Creative Outputs negatively impact SDG performance but this is reversed by effective governance.
Government effectiveness moderates the impact of innovation on sustainability without affecting other pillars.
Abstract
With progress toward the 2030 Agenda faltering, many see innovation as a key to sustainable development. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc represents a unique opportunity to examine how innovation capabilities drive sustainability in diverse economic and developmental contexts. Using panel data for ASEAN countries from 2011 to 2022, this study breaks down innovation into the seven pillars of the Global Innovation Index (GII) and investigates their impact on the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Index; with the objective of identifying which GII pillars most strongly predict SDG, while examining the moderating role of government effectiveness and controlling the impacts of gross national income per capita and foreign direct investment. Fixed effects models were used to analyse the data and supplemented by Driscoll-Kraay standard errors, addressing unobserved…
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Taxonomy
TopicsEnergy, Environment, Economic Growth · Environmental Sustainability in Business · University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
