TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigating policy and R&D effects on environmental innovation: A meta-analysis
AU - Ghisetti, Claudia
AU - Pontoni, Federico
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - In the last decades, a wide research effort has been devoted at the analysis of the determinants of environmental innovation (EI). Whereas agreement seemed to emerge around a cluster of determinants, mainly "Technology push", "Market pull", "Policy push-pull" and "firm specific factors", empirical analyses have failed to provide strong confirmation on the relevance of some core variables. After a qualitative discussion of this literature, we empirically assess it by exploiting meta-regression-analysis techniques to test the effectiveness of two determinants: policy and R&D. Our findings are clear: as for the first, we show that only certain types of policy have proven to affect EI, in particular regulatory stringency. As for R&D, we show that the use of estimation methods is not neutral to the outcome of the primary studies.
AB - In the last decades, a wide research effort has been devoted at the analysis of the determinants of environmental innovation (EI). Whereas agreement seemed to emerge around a cluster of determinants, mainly "Technology push", "Market pull", "Policy push-pull" and "firm specific factors", empirical analyses have failed to provide strong confirmation on the relevance of some core variables. After a qualitative discussion of this literature, we empirically assess it by exploiting meta-regression-analysis techniques to test the effectiveness of two determinants: policy and R&D. Our findings are clear: as for the first, we show that only certain types of policy have proven to affect EI, in particular regulatory stringency. As for R&D, we show that the use of estimation methods is not neutral to the outcome of the primary studies.
KW - 2300
KW - Determinants
KW - Eco-innovation
KW - Economics and Econometrics
KW - Environmental innovation
KW - Meta-regression analysis
KW - Patents
KW - Public policy
KW - R&D
KW - 2300
KW - Determinants
KW - Eco-innovation
KW - Economics and Econometrics
KW - Environmental innovation
KW - Meta-regression analysis
KW - Patents
KW - Public policy
KW - R&D
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/131096
UR - http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/5/0/3/3/0/5
U2 - 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.07.009
DO - 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.07.009
M3 - Article
SN - 0921-8009
SP - 57
EP - 66
JO - Ecological Economics
JF - Ecological Economics
ER -