Environmental policy stringency and technological innovation: Evidence from survey data and patent counts

Applied Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 2157-2170

  Johnstone, Nick ^a   Haščič, Ivan ^a   Poirier, Julie ^b   Hemar, Marion ^b   Michel, Christian ^c  

^a Empirical Policy Analysis Unit   (France)

^b Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental policy; Patents; Technological innovation

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INNOVATION; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 80051757623     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2011.560110     Document Type: Article

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