Determinants of green innovations: Firm-level evidence

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This paper examines determinants of firms' innovations with environmental benefits. Using micro-data from Ireland, we identify and quantify the impact of environmental regulations, innovation-inputs, firm-specific characteristics, spillovers from other green innovators, public funding and innovation co-operations on the propensity of firms to introduce innovations with environmental benefits. In addition, the analysis distinguishes innovations with environmental benefits within the enterprise and innovations with environmental benefits for the final consumer as well as different innovations by type of environmental impact within these two broad categories of green innovations. The results indicate that environmental regulations, in-house R&D and acquisition of capital assets are crucially important as drivers of green innovations.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ESRI Working Paper ; No. 643

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis ; Multinational Firms; International Business ; Economics of Regulation ; Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation
• Subject: innovations with environmental benefits ; firm behaviour ; environmental regulations ; multinational activity

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Siedschlag, Iulia ; Meneto, Stefano ; Tong Koecklin, Manuel
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI)
• (where): Dublin
• (when): 2019

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/228286
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