Die Digitalisierung ist die gröt︢e gesellschaftsweite Transformation unserer Zeit. Ihre technologische Entwicklung verläuft exponentiell und macht dadurch Innovationssprünge und deren Nebenfolgen zunehmend unabsehbar. Trotzdem betonen Politik und Wirtschaft die Notwendigkeit, die...

Environmental innovations may contribute to both improving the environmental quality of products and increasing the resource efficiency of products and processes. In particular, energy and resource efficiency innovations (hereafter: EREIs) are seen as win-win opportunities. The German...

The paper sketches out a theoretical framework for analysing the interplay between eco-efficiency, cognition and institutions. It derives from analytical shortfalls of the prevailing literature, which features strongly engineering and business economics, by using insights from New Institutional...

Energy and resource efficiency innovations (EREIs) are often seen as win-win opportunities for both the economic and 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...