Eco-innovation attitude and industry's technological level - an important key for promoting efficient vertical policies

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1893-1901

  Peiró Signes, Ángel ^a,b   Segarra Oña, María del Val ^a,b,c   Miret Pastor, Luis ^a   Verma, Rohit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^c International Network for Economic Research on Tourism and Environment   (Spain)

Author keywords

Eco innovation attitude; High tech industries; Low; Medium; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855448775     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2011.253     Document Type: Article

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