The authors recommend that the G20 target innovative green-technology SMEs as an opportunity to promote financial de … signals for private investors through: (1) a reporting system that can help monitor the scale-up of green-technology SMEs; (2 …) the use of public funds to signal innovative green-technology SMEs to investors; and (3) the inclusion of SMEs in the …

The authors recommend that the G20 target innovative green-technology SMEs as an opportunity to promote financial de … signals for private investors through: (1) a reporting system that can help monitor the scale-up of green-technology SMEs; (2 …) the use of public funds to signal innovative green-technology SMEs to investors; and (3) the inclusion of SMEs in the …

The authors recommend that the G20 target innovative green-technology SMEs as an opportunity to promote financial de … signals for private investors through: (1) a reporting system that can help monitor the scale-up of green-technology SMEs; (2 …) the use of public funds to signal innovative green-technology SMEs to investors; and (3) the inclusion of SMEs in the …

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 EREI firms follow distinct innovation strategies? Do EREIs spur … or limit innovation success? And what are the particular features of EREI firms compared to conventional innovators …

. In the years from 2002 to 2004, approximately 6,600 firms in Germany introduced EREIs. Analysing German innovation data …, we find statistically significant differences in the innovation activities between firms with EREIs and other innovators … main incentive for investing in higher resource efficiency are cost savings. Moreover, firms with EREIs perceive innovation …

environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and … workplace safety. -- environmental policy ; market fragmentation ; innovation : technology transfer …

-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 regulatory standards and demand-generating effects of regulation. In this … paper we analyse (a) whether regulation-driven environmental innovation generate similar innovation success compared to …

We examine how different renewable energy support policies affect innovation in solar and wind power technologies. The … distinguishing two dimensions of regulation, i.e. design and intensity, and their effects on innovation. The patent data is based on …

and environmental policy stringency on environment-related innovation. A subsequent two-stage model assesses the factors … which drive innovation in general and uses the fitted values to estimate environmental innovation. While the analysis is …

innovations, however, suffer from so-called "double externalities", because apart from innovation spillovers they also improve the … quality of public environmental goods, which can be used without cost by free riders. Those innovation spillovers can be …