Environmental innovation activities and patenting: Germany reconsidered

Rave, Tilmann; Goetzke, Frank

doi:10.1080/09640568.2016.1213706

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“…These results are consistent with previous studies [13,25,60,61]. This positive relationship is explained by the greater resource availability in large firms [13].…”

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Is Strategic Proactivity a Driver of an Environmental Strategy? Effects of Innovation and Internationalization Leadership

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This study analyses strategic proactivity as a driving factor in the implementation of an advanced environmental strategy in a firm. Strategic proactivity is defined as a firm's tendency to initiate voluntary changes instead of reacting to events in the environment and according to previous literature, can be interpreted as a combination of internal factors that characterise a firm's business strategy as that of a prospector firm. In this study, we measured this through innovation, with two variables related to the firm's entire production cycle: R&D expenditure and patents. However, we also considered two more strategic proactivity indicators: innovation proactivity and internationalisation proactivity. These two proactivity variables take into account the innovative and international actions of the firms, going beyond the actions usually taken by firms in the same sector. Using panel data methodology, we obtained results that show that firms who invest in R&D and patent their innovations achieve more advanced positions in their environmental strategies. Empirical evidence also shows that firms with a greater innovation effort throughout the production cycle (product, process, organisation and marketing) than their competitors also attain more advanced positions (proactivity) in environmental matters. In other words, innovation proactivity is a driver of environmental strategy. In relation to internationalization, the results also showed that firms that operate in a larger geographical area than their competitors adapt to the most demanding environmental legislation, placing them in a position of environmental leadership in their respective sectors. The inclusion of internationalization as an indicator of strategic proactivity, the measurement of proactivity variables and the correction of firms' specific unobserved aspects are some of this paper's contributions.

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“…These results are consistent with previous studies [13,25,60,61]. This positive relationship is explained by the greater resource availability in large firms [13].…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 83%

Is Strategic Proactivity a Driver of an Environmental Strategy? Effects of Innovation and Internationalization Leadership

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“…For firm size, current empirical studies are not consentient. Some studies found a positive correlation (Horbach, 2008;Rave et al, 2011;Kesidou and Demirel, 2012), whereas others found a negative or no correlation at all (Wagner, 2007;Horbach, 2008). Although all our significant results showed a positive correlation with the share of green exports, we have also found plenty insignificant results for the other measures of eco-innovation performance.…”

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“…In particular, the prospect of increasing costs, and the percentage of large firms proved to be more important determinants for eco-innovation performance in terms of eco-industry exports. In extant empirical literature the prospect of cost savings frequently emerged as a significant determinant for eco-innovation at firm/sector level (Frondel et al, 2007;Horbach, 2008;Horbach et al, 2012), whereas for firm size existing findings are more ambiguous (Wagner, 2007;Horbach, 2008;Rave et al, 2011;Kesidou and Demirel, 2012).…”

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Policy stringency and (eco)-innovation performance: a cross country analysis

Kemenade

Teixeira

2017

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Abstract:Policymakers have an important role in enabling eco-innovation. To assess the effectivity of these interventions, it is necessary to characterize policies, namely the level of policy stringency. The present study contributes to extant empirical literature by performing a cross-country assessment of the impact of policy stringency on the outcomes (rather than the inputs) of the eco-innovation process. Contrasting with extant evidence, results fail to evidence the relevance of policy stringency for eco-innovation performance. Notwithstanding, policy stringency emerged indirectly as a potential critical determinant. Indeed, the possibility to save costs is often driven by policy instruments that punish pollution intensive firms. Keywords: eco-innovation; policy stringency; environmental regulation; Porter's hypothesis; competitiveness Resumo: Os decisores políticos têm um papel importante na promoção da eco-inovação. Para avaliar a eficácia destas intervenções, é necessário caracterizar as políticas, nomeadamente o nível de rigor das políticas. O presente estudo contribui para a literatura empírica existente através da realização de uma avaliação inter-país do impacto do reigor da política sobre os resultados (e não sobre os inputs) do processo de eco-inovação. Em contraste com as evidências existentes, os resultados não evidenciam a relevância da rigidez das políticas para o desempenho da eco-inovação. Não obstante, o rigor surgiou indiretamente como um potencial determinante crítico. Na verdade, a possibilidade de economizar custos é muitas vezes motivada por instrumentos de política que punem as empresas com poluição intensiva. Palavras-chave: Eco-inovação; Rigor da política; Regulação ambiental; Hipótese de Porter; Competitividade.

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“…21 The article by Lanjouw and Mody (1996) was an early effort to identify environmental patents to investigate their international diffusion. Recent empirical analysis based on environmental patents (among others, Rave et al (2011) and Johnstone et al (2010)) combined both IPC class selection and keywords search in patent abstracts and/or titles to identify environmental innovations. The approach of focusing on IPC classes only is likely to underestimate the number of environmental patents, thus giving rise to more conservative estimates.…”

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“…On the other hand, innovations aimed at reducing material and energy use are driven by cost-savings and resource and energy taxes due to the easier appropriability of the returns from innovation through reductions in production costs. Rave et al (2011) base their analysis on German firms and on their patenting behaviour. The main results highlight the importance of a clear and strict environmental regulatory framework, of possible cost savings due to environmental innovations and of the possibility of creating new markets.…”

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Do eco-innovations harm productivity growth through crowding out? Results of an extended CDM model for Italy

Marin

2014

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This paper discusses the results for Italy of a CDM model (Crepon et al, 1998) further extended with the objective of evaluating drivers and productivity effects of environmental innovations. The particular nature of environmental innovations, especially as regards the need of government intervention to create market opportunities, is likely to affect the way through which they are pursued (innovation equation within the CDM model) and their effect on productivity (productivity equation).Here I test two main hypothesis: (i) to what extent polluting firms rely on own innovations to improve their environmental performance? (ii) do the pursue of environmental innovations reduce the likelihood of obtaining other profitable innovations (crowding out)? Results, based on administrative data (AIDA by Bureau van Dijk and patent data from PATSTAT) show that innovation efforts of polluting firms and sectors is significantly biased towards environmental innovations and that environmental innovations tend to crowd out other more profitable (at least in the short run) innovations.

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Environmental innovation activities and patenting: Germany reconsidered

Cited by 36 publications

References 31 publications

Is Strategic Proactivity a Driver of an Environmental Strategy? Effects of Innovation and Internationalization Leadership

Is Strategic Proactivity a Driver of an Environmental Strategy? Effects of Innovation and Internationalization Leadership

Policy stringency and (eco)-innovation performance: a cross country analysis

Do eco-innovations harm productivity growth through crowding out? Results of an extended CDM model for Italy

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