Massimiliano Mazzanti

TL;DR: In this article, the export competitiveness of the European Union has been affected by environmental regulation and innovation, and a theoretically based gravity model applied to the export dynamics of five aggregated manufacturing sectors classified by their technological or environmental content.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the different forces underlying the adoption of environmental innovations (EI), with a focus on policy related EI, exploiting the 2006-2008 wave of the Italian Community Innovation Survey (CIS), investigate whether the first phase of the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) exerted some effects on EI in CO2 abatement and energy efficiency controlling for other variables, grouped as internal/external to the firm, and additional environmental regulation factors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive analysis of waste generation, incineration, recycling and landfill dynamics based on panel data for the EU25, to assess the effects of different drivers (economic, structural, policies) and the eventual heterogeneity on such evidence between western and eastern EU countries is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of inter-firm network relationships, agglomeration economies and internationalization strategies is jointly analyzed for a sample of 555 firms in the Emilia-Romagna (ER) region (North-East Italy).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the role of network relationships, agglomeration economies and internationalization strategies in the adoption of EI by multinational firms in local production systems.