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 …

term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the … Community Innovation Survey 2009, in which companies were asked to cite the respective regulations to be responsive for the … regulation on innovation. Furthermore, different types of regulations varied with respect to their impact on several …

(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 …

. In the years from 2002 to 2004, approximately 6,600 firms in Germany introduced EREIs. Analysing German innovation data …, we find statistically significant differences in the innovation activities between firms with EREIs and other innovators … main incentive for investing in higher resource efficiency are cost savings. Moreover, firms with EREIs perceive innovation …

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