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Determinants of Environmental Innovations in Germany: Do Organizational Measures Matter? A Discrete Choice Analysis at the Firm Level
Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
Based on a unique firm level data set of the German manufacturing sector, this paper provides new empirical evidence regarding the determinants of different types of environmental technological innovations. We examine particularly the effects of environmental organizational measures such as...
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Green innovations and organizational change: Making better use of environmental technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...
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Integrated Product Policy and Environmental Product Innovations: An Empirical Analysis
Rehfeld, Katharina-Maria; Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the ?Integrated Product Policy?. The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve a broad reduction of all environmental impacts throughout a product?s life cycle....
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Environmental innovations and profitability: How does it pay to be green? An empirical analysis on the German innovation survey
Ghisetti, Claudia; Rennings, Klaus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
' profitability with opposite signs, and, secondly, whether the motivations driving the adoption of those innovations make the …
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Spillovers of Innovation Activities and Their Profitability
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
leakage of knowledge in an industry will negatively affect profitability. This paper presents the results of an empirical … study on the effects of outgoing and incoming spillovers on firms? profitability. It turns out that the expected asymmetry …
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On the Profitability of Innovative Assets
Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
on the effects of the patent stock on profitability. The data base is a representative sample of German manufacturing … patent stock has a strong and robust effect on profitability. …
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The effects of corporate and country sustainability characteristics on the cost of debt: An international investigation
Hoepner, Andreas; Oikonomou, Ioannis; Scholtens, Bert; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
We investigate the relationship between corporate and country sustainability on the cost of bank loans. We look into … operating in all major industries. Our principal findings reveal that country sustainability related to both social and … of one unit in country sustainability scores is associated with an average decrease in the costs of debt by 64 basis …
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Cartel detection in procurement markets
Hüschelrath, Kai; Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Cartel detection is usually viewed as a key task of either competition authorities or compliance officials in firms with an elevated risk of cartelization. We argue that customers of hard core cartels can have both incentives and possibilities to detect such agreements on their own initiative...
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Pollution externalities in a Schumpeterian growth model
Koesler, Simon - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
This paper extends a standard Schumpeterian growth model to include an environmental dimension. Thereby, it explicitly links the pollution intensity of economic activity to technological progress. In a second step, it investigates the effect of pollution on economic growth under the assumption...
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Determinants of eco-innovations by type of environmental impact. The role of regulatory push/pull, technology push and market pull
Horbach, Jens; Rammer, Christian; Rennings, Klaus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
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...
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