Arbeitspapier

Integrated Product Policy and Environmental Product Innovations: An Empirical Analysis

The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the ?Integrated Product Policy?. The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve a broad reduction of all environmental impacts throughout a product?s life cycle. Based on a unique company level data set for the German manufacturing sector, this paper empirically examines the relationship between environmental organisational measures regarded as IPP measures by the European Commission and environmental product innovations. According to the econometric analysis, the certification of environmental management systems has a significantly positive effect on environmental product innovations. Waste disposal measures or product take-back systems appear to be an even more important driver of environmental product innovations. The econometric analysis also shows that other factors that have been suggested in the literature, such as environmental policy, technology push and market pull, as well as other specific company characteristics have a significantly positive influence on environmental product innovations. According to the descriptive analysis of environmental product innovators, economic aspects (i.e. higher prices) rather than soft factors appear to be the major obstacles to the commercial exploitation of environmental products and thus also to environmental product innovations.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 04-71

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Sustainable Development
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Thema
Integrated Product Policy
Product Innovation
Environmental Innovation
Innovation Management
Technological Innovation
Discrete Choice Models
Umweltmanagement
Innovation
Umweltverträgliches Produkt
Produktpolitik
Schätzung
Verarbeitendes Gewerbe
Deutschland

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Rehfeld, Katharina-Maria
Rennings, Klaus
Ziegler, Andreas
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2004

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Rehfeld, Katharina-Maria
  • Rennings, Klaus
  • Ziegler, Andreas
  • Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)

Entstanden

  • 2004

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