The impact of environmental innovations on firm performance is ambiguous. On the one hand, regulatory-driven environmental innovation may impose additional costs to firms and lower their profits. On the other hand, eco-innovators could profit from lower uncertainty in innovation due to...

Innovationen werden meist als das Ergebnis von systematischer Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) betrachtet. Gleichwohl betreibt über die Hälfte der Innovatoren in Deutschland keine eigene FuE.Die Arbeit untersucht, mit welchen Strategien diese Unternehmen erfolgreich Neuerungen einführen und...

Empirical analyses of the determinants of environmental innovations were rarely able to distinguish between different areas of environmental impacts. The paper tries to close this gap by employing a new and unique dataset based on the German Community Innovation Survey conducted in 2009. The...

Energy and resource efficiency innovations (EREIs) are often seen as win-win opportunities for both the economic and the environmental performance of firms. It is thus worth asking how the innovation activities and performance of firms with regard to energy and resource efficiency look like: Do...