DETERMINANTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION IN THE BRAZILIAN INDUSTRY1 Determinantes de la innovación ambiental en la industria brasileña

The aim of this paper is to understand the reasons for the adoption of environmental innovation and clean technologies within the Brazilian manufacturing sector. The study is divided in two parts. In the first one, there is a brief survey of the literature on the determinants of environmental innovation in the Brazilian industry. From the main results, a set of hypotheses is defined in order to establish research topics. In the second part, an empirical analysis is carried out using primary data from two independent surveys, the Survey on Innovation and Technology of the Brazilian Industry (PINTEC) and the Brazilian Annual Industrial Survey (PIA), both carried out by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The results show that there is statistically significant correlation between the adoption of environmental innovation and certain characteristics of the firm, such as investment in research and development, average level of employees ’ education and the size of the firm