Klaus Rennings

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the term eco-innovation to describe three kinds of changes towards sustainable development: technological, social and institutional innovation, and discuss the potential contribution of neoclassical and (co-)evolutionary approaches from environmental and innovation economics to ecoinnovation research.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new and unique dataset based on the German Community Innovation Survey conducted in 2009 was used to test whether different types of eco-innovations (according to their environmental impacts) are driven by different factors.

TL;DR: In this article, a new and unique dataset based on the German Community Innovation Survey conducted in 2009 was used to test whether different types of eco-innovations (according to their environmental impacts) are driven by different factors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed a variety of factors that might enhance firms' propensity to implement cleaner products and production technologies instead of end-of-pipe technologies and found that regulatory measures and the stringency of environmental policies are positively correlated with clean production, while cost savings, general management systems, and specific environmental management tools tend to favor clean production.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend the lead market model to environmental innovations and take particular account of the peculiarities of such innovations, in particular, the public good character of environmental benefits and the role of regulations.