The impact of environmental policy instruments on innovation: A review of energy and automotive industry studies

Bergek, Anna; Berggren, Christian

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.07.016

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“…However, under strong assumptions, the uncertainty in the cost function increases the superiority of the price instrument [11]. 6 Using different assumptions, others have suggested that there is no instrument strictly better than the other and that the policy application should be "time-dependent" [12]. Similarly, the advantage of one instrument over the other depends on how correlated the uncertainty in the benefits and costs function [13].…”

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Strategic Choice of Market Instrument

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This paper proposes a model where both regulator and industry behave strategically to endogenously choose the optimal market instrument. The regulator payoff function includes political gains from investment in abatement and improvement in the provision of the environmental good in addition to the efficient choice of the instrument level. Whereas the industry's objective is to minimize abatement costs. Under plausible conditions, the model suggests that quantity instrument is favorable to the regulator. Also, industry with high cost of abatement has a better incentive to invest in clean technology. Regulator gains from increasing the provision of environmental good and from industry investing in abatement.

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“…There is also evidence which suggests that the choice of instrument has possible implications on technological innovation [4] [5] [6]. 2 This suggests that the regulator may incur a political gain if the choice of instrument increases the incentives for industry to invest in cleaner technology.…”

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Strategic Choice of Market Instrument

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“…Despite the advantages of ISO 50001 implementation, companies tend to focus on reducing their environmental impact through the implementation of the Environmental Management System (EMS) ISO 14001, mainly because of the tightening of international environmental standards [15][16][17][18]. In 2015, 319,324 ISO14001 certificates were issued, but in the same year, only 11,985 accreditations in ISO 50001 were issued (despite a remarkable increment of 77% compared to 2014) [19].…”

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Methodology for the Successful Integration of an Energy Management System to an Operational Environmental System

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Despite the fact that the implementation of ISO 50001 has helped organizations to successfully accomplish energy saving policies, there is still a significant disparity in the number of companies certificated under ISO 50001 compared with other standards such as ISO 14001. Considering the compatibilities between both standards, a potential sector is identified for the integration of ISO 50001 in organizations that operate under ISO 14001 systems. The cost and time associated with the development and implementation of the Energy Management System are identified as being amongst the most important obstacles, restricting the number of companies that are inclined to this energy certification. As an attempt to overcome this limitation, in this work, both standards were analyzed in detail and their coincidences identified and organized to propose a novel methodology that allows companies to naturally integrate an Energy Management System based on ISO 50001 into an ISO 14001 already in operation. The results provide evidence of a strong compatibility among the energy and environmental management systems, allowing enterprises to integrate the former with minimum investment and resources. In order to validate the proposed methodology and to demonstrate the agreement between both programs, these procedures were applied in a manufacturing company of the automotive sector, considered as a high energy consumer according to the classification made by the National Commission for the Efficient Use of Energy in Mexico.

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“…supporting grants or tax reductions for companies willing to develop new products or services), or to induce the diffusion of innovations (e.g. investment subsidies to encourage actors to buy an innovation, measures affecting relative prices such as guaranteed purchase prices for products produced from a certain technology) (Bergek et al, 2014).…”

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“…Authors have also suggested strategies aimed at lowering systemic challenges (e.g. Bergek et al, 2014Bergek et al, , 2008b. Nevertheless, the fact that adopters, despite a variety of both systemand actor-level problems, still manage to implement their adoption decisions suggests that they also develop individual strategies.…”

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Inducing large-scale diffusion of innovation : An integrated actor- and system-level approach

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In order for the innovation process to be successful, not only do innovations need to be developed and reached the market, but, once they are available for users, they have to spread on a large scale. In the innovation literature, a complete explanation is lacking of why some innovations reach a phase of large-scale diffusion faster than others, including both actor-and system-level components. For instance, what drives and hinders adopters to decide to adopt the innovation on the actor and system levels, and how adopters who participate in the largescale diffusion handle the adoption process and the implementation of the innovation, are questions still unanswered. As a consequence, it remains unclear how the large-scale diffusion process can be facilitated and speeded up.This thesis addresses these issues by studying the case of renewable electricity (RE) innovations. After decades of technology development and improvements, RE innovations are now mature enough to be bought off-the-shelf by individuals and organizations. Yet, the pace of their large-scale diffusion is still too slow for countries to reach their RE generation targets and to limit global warming.Through qualitative and quantitative methods including 59 semi-structured interviews with adopters, project developers and experts in Sweden, France and Germany as well as a survey sent to the whole population of RE adopters in Sweden, an adopter perspective is taken in to explore the adoption dynamics shaping large-scale diffusion of innovation. More specifically, the thesis identifies the drivers and challenges of adoption during large-scale diffusion and their impact on adoption decisions and strategies. The outcome of this work is presented in a compiling synthesis and six appended papers.Findings show that adopters are heterogeneous with regard to their characteristics, drivers, challenges and strategies that affect their adoption processes. Depending on their perceptions, some adopters are more influenced by drivers and challenges than and, as a consequence, adopters base their adoption decisions on different motives and follow different strategies to implement the innovation.The results also suggest that the dynamics occurring during the large-scale diffusion process do not only come from the actor and system levels, but also from parallel systems, which are related to adopters and their social networks and the industries they primarily belong. This makes adopters the central drivers of the innovation diffusion process and this distinguishes the dynamics of large-scale diffusion from the dynamics of innovation development and early diffusion, in which the innovation is the central component.Based on the findings about the adoption dynamics shaping large-scale diffusion, the thesis raises the need to consider large-scale diffusion as part of a new system, different from the innovation system and that acknowledges the specificities of this process. A tentative model accounting for the central role of adopters and for the interactions between ...

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The impact of environmental policy instruments on innovation: A review of energy and automotive industry studies

Abstract: Various types of policy instruments have been implemented to reduce local and global emissions, but the impact on innovation of different instruments has received less attention.

Cited by 191 publications

References 89 publications

Strategic Choice of Market Instrument

Strategic Choice of Market Instrument

Methodology for the Successful Integration of an Energy Management System to an Operational Environmental System

Inducing large-scale diffusion of innovation : An integrated actor- and system-level approach

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