The impact of environmental innovations on firm performance is ambiguous. On the one hand, regulatory …-driven environmental innovation may impose additional costs to firms and lower their profits. On the other hand, eco-innovators could … profit from lower uncertainty in innovation due to regulatory standards and demand-generating effects of regulation. In this …

prone to increase employment, while firms that want to slash costs by innovation and compete by soft factors decrease …

performance. Whether or not this hypothesis is true is as important from the perspective of environmental policy as questions … relating to the relevant incentives for (1) a firm's voluntary adoption of an EMS and (2) its environmental innovation behavior … bivariate probit model that explicitly takes into account that a facility's decision on innovation activities is correlated with …

organizational environmental innovation that may lead to improved environmental performance. While the paper provides a descriptive … the process of complex firm decisions on innovation and environmental performance. While the relevant literature on these … analysis of the determinants for EMS-adoption and incentives that may trigger environmental innovation activities within German …

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

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 …