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...

A trend towards softer regulation, especially in the form of negotiated environmental agreements, is observable in national and international environmental policies. Such agreements are controversial, because there are fears that government will relinquish its responsibility for environmental...

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...

This paper analyses two aspects of environmental regulations triggered by ecoinnovations. First, whether there are long term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the environmental benefit of the innovations. To answer...

Empirical analyses of the determinants of environmental innovations were rarely able to distinguish between different areas of environmental impacts. The paper tries to close this gap by employing a new and unique dataset based on the German Community Innovation Survey conducted in 2009. The...

Much of the empirical literature analysing the relation between environmental innovation and competitiveness has focused on the question whether 'it pays to be green'. We differentiate between different types of environmental innovations, which will be disentangled in those aiming at reducing...

Umweltinnovationen können entlang der Innovationsphasen von der Invention über dieMarkteinführung bis hin zur Diffusion durch eine Reihe von Maßnahmen stimuliert und gefördertwerden. Die Inventionsphase dient der Schaffung eines möglichst breiten Lösungsvorratsfür zukünftige Umweltprobleme.

Mit dem Förderschwerpunkt »Ökonomie des Klimawandels« förderte das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung 27 Forschungsprojekte, die wirtschaftliche Aspekte des Klimawandels untersuchten. Im Rahmen der Begleitaktivitäten zu diesem Förderschwerpunkt koordinierten das Zentrum für...