It is frequently hypothesized that environmental management systems (EMSs) may improve firms' environmental innovation performance. Whether this hypothesis is true is as critical for environmental policy as questions pertaining to the relevant incentives for (1) a firm's voluntary adoption of an...

Despite the high CO2 emission intensity of fossil and especially coal fired energy production, these energy carriers will play an important role during the coming decades. The case study identifies the main technological trajectories concerning more efficient fossil fuel combustion and explores...

The employment effects of environmental technologies are in the focus of politicians but there are only few studies analyzing these effects for different environmental innovation fields. We use the 2009 wave of the German part of the Community Innovation Panel (CIS) allowing for such an analysis...

Empirical analyses of eco-innovation determinants have rarely been able to distinguish between different areas of environmental impact. The present paper tries to close this gap by employing a new and unique dataset based on the German Community Innovation Survey, conducted in 2009. The main...

"During the past twenty years the environmental protection sector has become very important for employment, too. Against the background of the product cycle hypothesis this paper looks into the question as to whether positive employment impulses will continue to come from this cross-sectional...

"This paper gives an overview of the empirical findings concerning the employment effects of environmental technology and environment-orientated services in Germany. After this, methodical approaches and continuing project plans are explained. The reasons for the study are theoretical...