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...

Integrierte Umweltschutztechniken gewinnen international an Bedeutung, weil von ihnen neben ökologischen Vorteilen gleichzeitig auch Impulse für den Standortwettbewerb und damit den Arbeitsmarkt erwartet werden. Die Studie liefert¤ erstmals empirisch fundierte Aussagen zu den...

This paper analyses two aspects of environmental regulations triggered by ecoinnovations. First, whether there are long term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the environmental benefit of the innovations. To answer...