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The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the ?Integrated Product Policy?. The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve a broad reduction of all environmental impacts throughout a product?s life cycle....
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This paper focuses on the relationship between technological innovation and international trade. In particular, the … effect of technological achievement on exports is studied. In order to measure technological innovation, the technological … classified into four groups according to their level of technological innovation: Leaders, Potential Leaders, Dynamic Adopters …
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Research and development (R&D) is an important resource for sustained economic growth. New knowledge created by a firm has spillover effects that improve the productivity of other firms and even other sectors. This is the heart of endogenous growth theory. In this framework, government policies...
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environmental effects. The approaches applied to interpreting the datasets are innovation life cycle analysis, and product chain … innovation. Ambitious environmental standards, though, continue to be an important regulative precondition of ecologically benign … technological innovation. …
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externally through open innovation is a possible approach to go beyond the internal development of innovations. One practice of … open innovation to assimilate external knowledge is corporate venture capital (CVC), meaning minority investments in … approach to engage in open innovation practices, since it allows one to pursue a range of different strategic objectives …
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industry level the impact of energy prices on green innovation activities. Our econometric models show that energy prices and … green innovation activities are positively related and that energy prices have a significantly positive impact on the ratio … lag between energy prices and innovation activities. Robustness tests confirm the main results. …
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recent literature is that there is a clear impact of environmental policy on invention, innovation and diffusion of …
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This paper shows how organizational, technical, and environmental factors affected firm decisions to adopt Internet technologies during the early years of the commercialization of the Internet. Organizations that had made prior investments in client/server networks had a higher likelihood of...
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investment decision to undertake innovation and the intensity of the innovative activity. The examination is carried out for two …
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The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … foreignness). We derive potential stumbling blocks in the innovation process theoretically and argue that these materialize as … innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …
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