Environmental policies are often considered as burden to firms as these face additional costs in order to comply with the regulations. However, by adapting to new regulatory frameworks, firms might reconsider their previous production processes and thereby reap additional gains, e.g. in terms of productivity through resource reallocation within the firm, or enhanced innovation activity. In four chapters, the present thesis examines whether environmental policy is able to create incentives for innovation and how appropriate measures could be designed. In the framework of the innovation concept of technology-push and demand-pull instruments, the potential of different environmental policies to create innovation incentives is assessed. The fi...
Significant policy effort is devoted to stimulate the development, adoption and diffusion of environ...
"This paper is based on empirical research on a taxonomy of technological environmental innovations....
'This report presents the results of a comparative analysis for the spread of selected environmental...
Much of the empirical literature analysing the relation between environmental innovation and competi...
"The paper explores employment effects of environmental product innovations at the firm level. The e...
The impact of environmental innovations on firm performance is ambiguous. On the one hand, regulator...
Standard analysis of the economics of environmental policy usually claims that emissions taxes induc...
The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the "Integrated Product Policy". Th...
Environmental innovations can play a central role in the fight against climate change. Also, the com...
The employment effects of environmental technologies are in the focus of politicians but there are o...
Wachsende Umweltbelange haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten den Druck auf politische Entscheidungsträge...
WWWforEurope Working Paper No. 91, 32 pages The Europe 2020 Strategy has identified the key goal of...
We examine impacts of different types of environmental innovations on firm profits. Following Porter...
This paper analyses two aspects of environmental regulations triggered by ecoinnovations. First, whe...
This paper contributes to the emerging literature on the adoption of environmental innovation, by in...
Significant policy effort is devoted to stimulate the development, adoption and diffusion of environ...
"This paper is based on empirical research on a taxonomy of technological environmental innovations....
'This report presents the results of a comparative analysis for the spread of selected environmental...
Much of the empirical literature analysing the relation between environmental innovation and competi...
"The paper explores employment effects of environmental product innovations at the firm level. The e...
The impact of environmental innovations on firm performance is ambiguous. On the one hand, regulator...
Standard analysis of the economics of environmental policy usually claims that emissions taxes induc...
The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the "Integrated Product Policy". Th...
Environmental innovations can play a central role in the fight against climate change. Also, the com...
The employment effects of environmental technologies are in the focus of politicians but there are o...
Wachsende Umweltbelange haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten den Druck auf politische Entscheidungsträge...
WWWforEurope Working Paper No. 91, 32 pages The Europe 2020 Strategy has identified the key goal of...
We examine impacts of different types of environmental innovations on firm profits. Following Porter...
This paper analyses two aspects of environmental regulations triggered by ecoinnovations. First, whe...
This paper contributes to the emerging literature on the adoption of environmental innovation, by in...
Significant policy effort is devoted to stimulate the development, adoption and diffusion of environ...
"This paper is based on empirical research on a taxonomy of technological environmental innovations....
'This report presents the results of a comparative analysis for the spread of selected environmental...