Environmental innovations and profitability: How does it pay to be green? An empirical analysis on the German innovation survey

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 75, Issue , 2014, Pages 106-117

  Ghisetti, Claudia ^a   Rennings, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy and material efficiency innovations; Externality reducing innovations; Mannheim innovation panel; Profitability

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; PROFITABILITY;

EFFICIENCY INCREASE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL LITERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; MANNHEIM; MATERIAL EFFICIENCY; NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES;

COMPETITION;

EID: 84901626378     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.03.097     Document Type: Article

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