The drivers and implications of environmental innovations: European evidence at different levels of analysis

Ghisetti, Claudia (2014) The drivers and implications of environmental innovations: European evidence at different levels of analysis, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Diritto europeo, 26 Ciclo. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/6404.
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Abstract

The present work is a collection of three essays devoted at understanding the determinants and implications of the adoption of environmental innovations EI by firms, by adopting different but strictly related schumpeterian perspectives. Each of the essays is an empirical analysis that investigates one original research question, formulated to properly fill the gaps that emerged in previous literature, as the broad introduction of this thesis outlines. The first Chapter is devoted at understanding the determinants of EI by focusing on the role that knowledge sources external to the boundaries of the firm, such as those coming from business suppliers or customers or even research organizations, play in spurring their adoption. The second Chapter answers the question on what induces climate change technologies, adopting regional and sectoral lens, and explores the relation among green knowledge generation, inducement in climate change and environmental performances. Chapter 3 analyzes the economic implications of the adoption of EI for firms, and proposes to disentangle EI by different typologies of innovations, such as externality reducing innovations and energy and resource efficient innovations. Each Chapter exploits different dataset and heterogeneous econometric models, that allow a better extension of the results and to overcome the limits that the choice of one dataset with respect to its alternatives engenders. The first and third Chapter are based on an empirical investigation on microdata, i.e. firm level data extracted from innovation surveys. The second Chapter is based on the analysis of patent data in green technologies that have been extracted by the PATSTAT and REGPAT database. A general conclusive Chapter will follow the three essays and will outline how each Chapter filled the research gaps that emerged, how its results can be interpreted, which policy implications can be derived and which are the possible future lines of research in the field.

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Tipologia del documento
Tesi di dottorato
Autore
Ghisetti, Claudia
Supervisore
Co-supervisore
Dottorato di ricerca
Scuola di dottorato
Scienze giuridiche
Ciclo
26
Coordinatore
Settore disciplinare
Settore concorsuale
Parole chiave
Environmental innovations; Green technologies; Profitability effects; Open innovation mode; Environmental performances
URN:NBN
DOI
10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/6404
Data di discussione
13 Giugno 2014
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