This paper investigates the connection between resource abundance and innovation, as a transmission mechanism that can …, consumers trade off leisure versus consumption, and firms trade off innovation efforts versus manufacturing. For this model, we … indirectly by inducing a smaller proportion of the labor force to engage in innovation. …

The paper examines the determinants that influence the environmental innovation behaviour of companies in Germany in a … multivariate context by using data from the Mannheimer Innovations Panel 1993, which was part of the Community Innovation Survey …. The objective is to analyse the general structures of the determinants of environmental innovation, as well as the …

low-quality producers to defend their monopoly position and prevent innovation and entry of high-quality competitors … politician secures re-election by setting high bureaucratic costs and firms invest in network blocking innovation and entry …

environmental effects. The approaches applied to interpreting the datasets are innovation life cycle analysis, and product chain … innovation. Ambitious environmental standards, though, continue to be an important regulative precondition of ecologically benign … technological innovation. …

innovation process. This paper uses two German panel data bases, the establishment panel of the Institute for Employment Research … (IAB) and the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), to explore the … of the data bases to analyze hypotheses derived from the theoretical (environmental) innovation literature. The …

Technological innovation is a key factor for achieving a better environmental performance of firms and the economy as a …/effluents associated to outputs. Environmental innovation may spur from exogenous driving forces, like policy intervention, and/or from … order to assess what forces are lying behind environmental innovation at the level of the firm, where innovative practices …