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Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …. We then quantitatively fit the parameters of the model to the data, finding that innovation at the macro level is about 5 …

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Of Mice and Academics : Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation

Murray, Fiona - 2009

Scientific freedom and openness are hallmarks of academia: relative to their counterparts in industry, academics maintain discretion over their research agenda and allow others to build on their discoveries. This paper examines the relationship between openness and freedom, building on recent...

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The Causal Effects of Competition on Innovation : Experimental Evidence

Aghion, Philippe - 2014

-by-step innovation. Innovations result from costly R&D investments and move technology up one step. Competition is inversely measured by …-and-neck. All these results are consistent with the predictions of step-by-step innovation models …

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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 - 2004

realization of an environmental product and a process innovation, indeed only compared with the realization of no environmental … innovation. …

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Integrated Product Policy and Environmental Product Innovations: An Empirical Analysis

Rehfeld, Katharina-Maria; Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - 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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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level: empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries

Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...

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Employment impacts of cleaner production: evidence from a German study using case studies and surveys

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Rennings, Klaus - 1999

The study assesses net employment effects of technical progress which can be expected by the ongoing transition from end-of-pipe technologies towards cleaner production. Empirical evidence is presented on the basis of case studies and panel data including a telephone survey in German industry....

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Towards a Theory and Policy of Eco-Innovation - Neoclassical and (Co-)Evolutionary Perspectives

Rennings, Klaus - 1998

Innovation processes toward sustainable development (eco-innovations) have received increasing attention during the … need can be identified to improve our understanding of innovation processes toward sustainability in their different … (co-)evolutionary approaches from environmental and innovation economics to fill this gap. It is argued that both …

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The Influence of the EU Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme on Environmental Innovations and Competitiveness in Germany: An Analysis on the Basis of Case Studies and a Lar...

Hoffmann, Esther; Ankele, Kathrin; Ziegler, Andreas; … - 2003

This paper investigates the effects of the EU Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme (EMAS) on environmental innovations and competitiveness in German facilities. It comprises twelve in-depth case studies and telephone interviews with 1277 EMAS-validated facilities. The surveys show a...

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Inkrementelle versus radikale Innovationen am Beispiel der Kraftwerkstechnik

Rennings, Klaus; Markewitz, Peter; Vögele, Stefan - 2008

Druckkohlenstaubfeuerung als radikale Innovation und überkritische Kohlekraftwerke als inkrementelle Innovation miteinander verglichen. Anhand …

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