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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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The Determinants and Effects of Environmental Product Innovations - An Analysis on the Basis of Case Studies

Tuerpitz, Katharina - 2003

, regulation appears to be one of the main drivers of ecological innovation. New technology is the second most important stimulus …

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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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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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Clean and Productive? Evidence from the German Manufacturing Industry

Oberndorfer, Ulrich; Moslener, Ulf; Böhringer, Christoph; … - 2008

We analyze the productivity effects of environmental (green) investment as well as of environmental expenditures and energy expenditures. For this purpose, we follow a production function approach where we account for these investment and expenditure categories as inputs. Based on a panel...

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How clean is clean? Incremental versus radical technological change in coal-fired power plants

Rennings, Klaus; Markewitz, Peter; Vögele, Stefan - 2009

(PPCC) as a radical innovation and supercritical coal-fired power plants as an incremental innovation are compared. An ex … sector of large-scale power plants is that an innovation is more likely to succeed the more it follows established …

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Increasing energy and resource efficiency through innovation: an explorative analysis using innovation survey data

Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - 2009

the environmental performance of firms. It is thus worth asking how the innovation activities and performance of firms … with regard to energy and resource efficiency look like: Do EREI firms follow distinct innovation strategies? Do EREIs spur … or limit innovation success? And what are the particular features of EREI firms compared to conventional innovators …

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