-2008 through analyses of the new wave of Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data that covered for the first time environmental … innovation adoptions. We investigate whether the first phase of EU ETS has exerted some effects on environmental innovations by … instead to be weak: it drives innovation if we compare ETS and non ETS firms, but the stringency itself does not matter, due …

environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on … performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant …

A major concern regarding innovation in clean technologies in the EU is that the fragmentation of its innovation system … hindering the movement towards the technological frontier. This paper evaluates the fragmentation of the EU innovation system in … integration of EU countries’ innovation efforts and to assess how citation patterns changed over time. We show that EU RES …