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Eco-innovation
About: Eco-innovation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 751 publications have been published within this topic receiving 28679 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the trade-off between environmental regulation and competitiveness unnecessarily raises costs and slows down environmental progress, and that instead of simply adding to cost, properly crafted environmental standards can trigger innovation offsets, allowing companies to improve their resource productivity.
Abstract: Accepting a fixed trade-off between environmental regulation and competitiveness unnecessarily raises costs and slows down environmental progress. Studies finding high environmental compliance costs have traditionally focused on static cost impacts, ignoring any offsetting productivity benefits from innovation. They typically overestimated compliance costs, neglected innovation offsets, and disregarded the affected industry's initial competitiveness. Rather than simply adding to cost, properly crafted environmental standards can trigger innovation offsets, allowing companies to improve their resource productivity. Shifting the debate from pollution control to pollution prevention was a step forward. It is now necessary to make the next step and focus on resource productivity.
8,154 citations
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.
2,146 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used two German panel databases, the establishment panel of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the Mannheim innovation panel (MIP) of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), to explore the determinants of environmental innovations.
1,039 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the heterogeneous picture research has drawn within the past 20 years with a focus on the innovation practices including different types of SOIs and strategic sustainability behaviors of SMEs through an interdisciplinary, systematic review in a time frame between 1987 and 2010.
887 citations
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.
885 citations