the TRIPS negotiators to strike a balance between the advancement of technological innovation and the promotion of …

studied for a new type of innovation where new technologies reduce emissions of a specific pollutant but at the same time … cause a new type of damage. A robust finding is that the efficiency of permits is affected by monopoly pricing of the patent …-holding firm. This result carries over to other types of innovation. Taxes are inefficient if technologies produce perfect …

This paper examines the determinants, that influence the environmental innovation behaviour of companies in Germany in … structures of the determinants of environmental innovation, as well as the specific impact of environmental policy instruments as … an integral part of this framework. The pressure of environmental policy instruments on the innovation behaviour of …