for international firms engaged both in environmental and in dirty activities. Firms' innovation, measured, as the … the lack of integrated innovation adoption behind environmental productivity performance. In this work, we analyse the … three economic areas: USA, Japan and Europe and we select their environmental and dirty patents from European Patent Office …

energy efficiency. Thus, we will describe the technology and process innovation for sustainable development and where energy …This article aims to examine the conditions in which technological innovation can foster and promote sustainable … development. It takes into account all forms of technological innovation potential for sustainable development: process …

We present Turkey’s manufacturing-sector innovation data and, for the first time, analyze likely relationships among … GDP growth, sectoral innovation intensities, energy consumptions, and energy-saving potentials. We detect a power … observe that the energy consumptions of the sectors do not change significantly despite varying innovation levels during …

innovative capabilities. This article examines the Indian "National System of Innovation" in order to address the question of the … industrialisation and innovation in India, and argues that the distinction between the knowledge of “how to make” (manufacture) and the … knowledge of “how to make better” (innovation) was inadequately appreciated in development planning in the country. …

Abstract Purpose - Recent OECD (2010, 2011) reports argue that eco-innovation is the key to realising growth. The … purpose of this paper is to analyse the drivers of eco-innovation and to compare the impact of eco-innovation and non-eco-innovation … stimulating eco-innovation. Design/methodology/approach - The approach utilised by this paper is empirical in nature. A modified …

innovation, when innovating agents have different costs and information transfer is expensive. We specify their optimisation …. The effect of expected innovation costs and its standard deviation are shown to be distribution dependent. Expected … considered. Transfer costs are found to be far more influential on switching than innovation costs in a symmetric model. Cost …

regions have recognized the significance impact of Science and Technology (S&T) and Education in their sustainable growth. In … the National Innovation System implanted in Ecuador is presented and evaluated. …

regions have recognized the significance impact of Science and Technology (S&T) and Education in their sustainable growth. In … the National Innovation System implanted in Ecuador is presented and evaluated. …

-run technological innovation. In the following article, this wisdom is tested using data on international patent activity, scientific … structured to adapt to innovation’s gale of creative destruction. Meanwhile, centralized states, even when democratic, have come … to be viewed as rigid and thus hostile to the risks, costs, and change associated with new technology; or are subject to …

-economists is that domestic institutions determine national innovation rates. However, after decades of research, there is still no … national innovation rates. Its survey will show that, although a specific domestic institution or policy might appear to … explain a particular instance of innovation, they generally fail to explain national innovation rates across time and space …