This paper reviews the recent experience of Germany in encouraging innovation to reduce negative environmental impacts … of economic activity. The essence of the German approach to policy-induced environmental innovation is discussed in the … transportation. The paper covers environmental and general innovation policies and the cross-cutting issue of policy co …

Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of …

Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of …

This paper explores the relationship between firms' cooperation and their propensity toward environmental innovation … and of vertical, horizontal and lateral cooperative agreements on environmental innovation propensity. I test these … hypotheses through a large scale dataset, the Community Innovation Survey for Spanish firms (PITEC), through the use of …

are induced by regulations. However, innovation that increases a firm’s material or energy efficiency in terms of material … voluntary innovations, although the effect is significantly larger for regulation-driven innovation.We conclude that the Porter … hypothesis does not hold in general for its “strong” version but has to be qualified by the type of environmental innovation. Our …

clean coal patenting and overall propensity to patent positively a.ects clean coal innovation. On the demand-side we find …This article empirically analyzes supply-side and demand-side factors expected to a.ect innovation in clean coal … technologies. Patent data from 93 national and international patent offices is used to construct new firm-level panel data on 3 …

clean coal patenting and overall propensity to patent positively affects clean coal innovation. On the demand-side we find …This article empirically analyzes supply-side and demand-side factors expected to affect innovation in clean coal … technologies. Patent data from 93 national and international patent offices is used to construct new firm-level panel data on 3 …

group of relevant innovators. -- Innovation ; patent data ; solar technologies ; climate change …. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity … technologies. This study relies on patent data to examine international innovative activity in concentrating solar power …

are used to compare the number of patents granted to co-determined firms before and after the introduction of the law …