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Do Green Innovations stimulate Employment? Firm-level Evidence From Germany

Licht, Georg; Peters, Bettina - 2014

employment effects of environmental and non-environmental product as well as process innovation. As a robustness check patent …

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Testing innovation, employment and distributional impacts of climate policy packages in a macro-evolutionary systems setting

Rengs, Bernhard; Scholz-Wäckerle, Manuel; Gazheli, Ardjan - 2015

Climate policy has been mainly studied with economic models that assume representative, rational agents. However, it aims at changing behavior associated with carbon-intensive goods that are often subject to bounded rationality and social preferences, such as status and imitation. Here we use a...

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The Bias of Technological Change in Europe

Vogel, Johanna; Kratena, Kurt; Hranyai, Kathrin - 2015

energy and less labour. Patent applications in energy- and labour-saving technology fields are used to model the direction of …

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Organisational change and the productivity effects of green technology adoption

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2016

This study investigates induced productivity effects of firms introducing new environmental technologies. The literature on within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can achieve higher productivity gains from adopting new technologies if they adapt their...

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Green innovations and organizational change: Making better use of environmental technology

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2014

This study investigates productivity effects to firms introducing new environmental technologies. The literature on within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can get higher productivity effects from adopting new technologies if complementary organisational changes...

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Impacts of regulation on eco-innovation and job creation

Horbach, Jens - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

New environmental technologies (environmental/eco-innovations) are often regarded as potential job creators—in addition to their positive effects on the environment. Environmental regulation may induce innovations that are accompanied by positive growth and employment effects. Recent empirical...

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Is Ecolabelling a Reliable Environmental Policy Measure?

Dosi, Cesare; Moretto, Michele - 1999

Ecolabel award schemes have become increasingly popular. Their rationale is to enable (concerned) consumers to identify "green" products. By so doing, ecolabelling should stimulate environmental innovation, and induce firms to reduce the supply of conventional (polluting) products. Our analysis...

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The Influence of Environmental Policy on Innovative Behaviour: An Econometric Study

Hemmelskamp, Jens - 1999

The paper examines the determinants that influence the environmental innovation behaviour of companies in Germany in a multivariate context by using data from the Mannheimer Innovations Panel 1993, which was part of the Community Innovation Survey. The objective is to analyse the general...

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The effects of innovation policies on firm level patenting

Klemetsen, Marit E. - 2015

This paper examines the impacts of R&D tax credits and direct R&D subsidies on Norwegian firms' patenting, with a particular focus on environmental patenting. Whereas direct subsidies are aimed at projects with low private and high social return, tax credits do not discriminate between projects...

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Sleeping Process Patents and Environmental Innovation / Umweltpolitik und schlafende Patente

Hübner, Marion - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 222 (2002) 6, pp. 706-718

Summary Using a duopoly model of a patent race, it is shown that a stricter environmental policy might increase the … probability of a sleeping patent instead of encouraging environmental technological progress. Two scenarios are discussed. The … diesem Fall forscht ein Unternehmen zwar, um ein Patent auf eine Umweltschutzinnovation zu erhalten, lässt das Patent jedoch …

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