prone to increase employment, while firms that want to slash costs by innovation and compete by soft factors decrease …

innovations. So far, the lead market concept in innovation economics has only been applied to innovations in general. We extend …-efficient passenger cars and wind energy. In both cases, one country adopted the innovation first. Later, other countries followed the … same innovation design favoured by the lead market. The lead market became a large exporter in the wind generation and car …

relating to the relevant incentives for (1) a firm's voluntary adoption of an EMS and (2) its environmental innovation behavior … bivariate probit model that explicitly takes into account that a facility's decision on innovation activities is correlated with … the decision on EMS certification. Our empirical results indicate that environmental innovation activities are not …

realization of an environmental product and a process innovation, indeed only compared with the realization of no environmental … innovation …

-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 …