policy instruments, such as energy related taxes, subsidies, regulations and standards or negotiated agreements on the firm …

instruments such as energy-related taxes, subsidies, standards and negotiated agreements, or other regulations on the firm …

Non-technological innovation is an important element of firms' innovation activities that both supplement and … complement technological innovation, i.e. the introduction of new products and new processes. We analyse the spread of … nontechnological innovation in firms, their relation to technological innovation, and their effects to firm performance and success …

voluntary innovations, although the effect is significantly larger for regulation-driven innovation. We conclude that the Porter …) hypothesis that environmental regulation can improve firms' competitiveness we distinguish regulation induced and voluntary … are induced by regulations. However, innovation that increases a firm's material or energy efficiency in terms of material …

Community Innovation Survey conducted in 2009. The main purpose of the paper is to test whether different types of eco … regulation, cost savings and customer benefits. We find that current and expected government regulation is particularly important … the role of energy and raw materials prices as well as taxation as drivers for eco-innovation. Customer requirements are …

Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede … innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts …, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and to what extent labor shortage affects innovation activities. The paper …

In this paper we analyze the conditions under which firms decide to offshore innovation. We consider the role of … technological change. Using unique data from the German Innovation Survey we find that while high speed of technological change … tends to drive innovation offshoring, high uncertainty about future technology developments results in more innovation …