Environmental innovation and environmental performance

The Links between Environmental Innovation and Environmental Performance: Evidence for High- and Middle-Income Countries

“…The empirical study of Carrion-Flores and Innes [5] and survey-based studies of Horbach et al [6] and Chiou et al [7] all confirm the positive effect of environmental innovation on environmental pollution reduction. However, these studies are not cross-country panel analyses and do not analyze the same sources of pollution, so they have potential limitations to address the general effects of environmental innovation on environmental improvement.…”

“…Notably, most of the research is not cross-country panel data analysis, but single-country industry-level analysis [5], or survey-based study [6,7]. As an empirical study that examined the linkage between environmental innovation and environmental performance, Carrion-Flores and Innes [5] estimated a simultaneous panel data model of environmental innovation and toxic air pollution. They identified bi-directional causal links between environmental innovation (environmental patent) and pollution emissions, using a panel of 127 US manufacturing industries over the 16-year period 1989-2004.…”

“…According to their arguments, even if less environmentally harmful technologies replaced more environmentally harmful technologies, if the new technologies replaced are used more than before, environmental damage may not be reduced because all the technologies cause environmental damage, to some extent, during the production process and product use. Yet, there are only a few empirical studies on the overall effect of environmental innovation on environmental improvement [5][6][7].…”

Impacts of Low-Carbon Innovation and Its Heterogeneous Components on CO2 Emissions

“…Z j,it denotes control variables, including openness [10,48], energy structure [14], generic technology progress [21], and environmental policy [49]. Given the log linearization of the model, the estimated coefficient represents the elasticity between the dependent variable and the independent variable, i.e., the size of the percentage change in the dependent variable with respect to one percentage change of the independent variable.…”

Closing the Gap? Dynamic Analyses of Emission Efficiency and Sector Productivity in Europe

“…Even though different kinds of environmental regulation are characterized by heterogeneous levels of efficiency in meeting their environmental targets 3 , the effect of environmental policies is in the direction of improving environmental efficiency by definition 4 . Another important 'domestic' driver of emission efficiency is the domestic stock of knowledge in environmental technologies (Carrión-Flores and Innes, 2010). Domestic actors may strategically invest in environmental innovations to exploit early mover advantages in the world markets for environmental technologies.…”