Environmental Innovations and Strategies for the Development of New Production Technologies: Empirical Evidence from Europe

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 501-516

  Bönte, Werner ^a,b   Dienes, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy and material efficiency; Environmental innovation; Innovation strategy; Process innovations

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INNOVATION; MANUFACTURING; PROBABILITY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EUROPE;

EID: 84890792865     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.1753     Document Type: Article

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