The Europe 2020 Strategy has identified the key goal of smart, more inclusive and sustainable growth. In this direction, redirecting firms' innovation activities towards ecological targets without hampering their competitiveness is of paramount importance. The double externality issue related to...

This paper investigates the impact of eco-innovation on firms' growth processes, with a special focus on gazelles, i.e. firms' showing higher growth rates than the average. In a context shaped by more and more stringent environmental regulatory frameworks, we posit that inducement mechanisms...

The present paper takes ground on an agent-based model presented in Arfaoui et al. (2014) to investigate the effects of credibility upon technology substitution such as stimulated by the REACH regulation (EC 1907/2006). The model is used to study how the perceived credibility by clients on the...

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 context of changing policy objectives, and illustrated...

This paper presents an adapted agent-based model for the diffusion of new aircraft model series. Expanding on the classical economic decision framework, where investment decision-making is entirely based on profitability, our holistic modeling approach takes into account profitability,...

Over the past decades, the aviation sector has seen an unprecedented technology advancement as well as rise in global air traffic. In this paper, we establish a two-stage model, combining an epidemic diffusion model and a regression analysis to analyze and predict the diffusion process of modern...

Auf dem Weg zur Klimaneutralität spielt der Übergang von einer linearen Wirtschaft zu einer Kreislaufwirtschaft (Circular Economy) eine wichtige Rolle. Kreisläufe von Ressourcen lassen sich in Unternehmen unterschiedlich umsetzen. Der hierfür notwendige Blick auf den gesamten Lebenszyklus...

This article examines the impact of environmental regulation within countries as well as regulatory distance between countries on international technology transfer. We employ a recently-assembled dataset of automobile emission standards and corresponding data on non-resident patent filing of...

This paper investigates the impact of eco-innovation on firms’ growth processes, with a special focus on gazelles, i.e. firms’ showing higher growth rates than the average. In a context shaped by more and more stringent environmental regulatory frameworks, we posit that inducement mechanisms...

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 context of changing policy objectives, and illustrated...