Environmental performance, manufacturing sectors and firm growth: structural factors and dynamic relationships

Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto

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“…The definition of EI is not limited to specific technologies; it also includes new organisational methods, products, services and knowledge-oriented innovations 5 . The importance of adopting integrated strategies for innovation is particularly relevant in complex firms' technologies such as those pertaining to CO2 abatement, compared to cuts in emissions such as SOx -NOx (Cainelli et al, 2013;Marin and Mazzanti, 2013). The latter might occur through end of pipe technologies while CO2 abatement depends upon a radical change in the energy -technological framework.…”

Section: Environmental Productivity and Complementarity Among Innovatmentioning

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“…Calel and Dechezlepretre (2012) have stated that the EU ETS has actually had effects on the increase in the introduction of environmental innovation, in this case low-carbon innovation; however, in phase one of EU-ETS, process innovation is found to be more likely to occur with respect to product innovation. There is a high level of uncertainty nevertheless on ETSrelated inducement of innovation (Borghesi et al, 2012;Cainelli and Mazzanti, 2013). This attempt is somewhat original given that literature on complementarity has mainly focused on the drivers of innovation rather than its effects.…”

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Innovation complementarity and environmental productivity effects: Reality or delusion? Evidence from the EU

Gilli¹,

Mancinelli²,

Mazzanti³

2014

Ecological Economics

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Innovation is a key element behind the achievement of desired environmental and economic performances. Regarding CO 2, mitigation strategies would require cuts in emissions of around 80-90% with respect to 1990. We investigate whether complementarity, namely integration, between the adoption of environmental innovation measures and other technological and organizational innovations is a factor that has supported reduction in CO 2 emissions per value added, that is environmental productivity. We merge new EU CIS and WIOD meso level data to assess the innovation effects on sector CO 2 performances at a wide EU level. We find that jointly adopting different innovations is not a significant factor to increase environmental productivity, neither for the entire economy nor for manufacturing or narrower ETS sectors. The only case where a complementarity arises is for Northern EU manufacturing sectors that integrate eco innovations with product and process innovations to support environmental productivity. We believe that the lack of integrated innovation adoption behind environmental productivity performance is a signal of the current weaknesses economies face in tackling climate change and green economy challenges. Incremental rather than more radical strategies have predominated so far; this is probably insufficient when we look at long-term economic and environmental goals.

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Section: Environmental Productivity and Complementarity Among Innovatmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Innovation complementarity and environmental productivity effects: Reality or delusion? Evidence from the EU

Gilli¹,

Mancinelli²,

Mazzanti³

2014

Ecological Economics

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“…Within the wide body of literature on the subject, the dynamics of the creation of environmental innovations has recently become a key topic. Green technologies are actually regarded as a means of restoring the competitiveness of advanced countries, which has been harmed by the economic crisis (Gilli et al, 2014;Costantini et al, 2013;Cainelli et al, 2013;Ghisetti and Quatraro, 2013;Mazzanti and Zoboli, 2009). Their emergence is indeed supposed to bring about new jobs and new perspectives for economic growth.…”

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Green startups and local knowledge bases: newborn suppliers of energy related technologies in Italian provinces

Colombelli¹,

Quatraro²

2019

Handbook on Green Growth

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There is wide consensus about the importance of green technologies for achieving superior economic and environmental performances. The literature on their determinants has neglected the creation of green start-ups as a channel to bring about green technologies in the market. Drawing upon the knowledge spillovers theory of entrepreneurship, we test the relevance of local knowledge stocks, distinguishing between clean and dirty stocks, for the creation of green start-ups. Moreover, the effects of the technological composition of local stocks is investigated, by focusing on technological variety, both related and unrelated, as well as on coherence. Consistently with recent literature, green start-ups are associated to higher levels of variety, pointing to the relevance of diverse and heterogeneous knowledge sources, but in related and complementary technological fields.

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“…Within the wide body of literature on the subject, the dynamics pertaining to the creation of environmental innovations has recently become a key topic. Green technologies are currently regarded as a means of restoring the competitiveness of advanced countries, which has been harmed by the recent economic crisis (Gilli et al, 2014;Costantini et al, 2013;Cainelli et al, 2013;Ghisetti and Quatraro, 2013;Mazzanti and Zoboli, 2009). Their emergence is in fact believed to bring about new jobs and new perspectives for economic growth.…”

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Green start-ups and local knowledge spillovers from clean and dirty technologies

Colombelli

Quatraro

2017

Small Bus Econ

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There is wide consensus about the importance of green technologies in achieving superior economic and environmental performances. However, the literature on their determinants has neglected the creation of green start-ups as a way of introducing green technologies onto the market. Drawing upon the knowledge spillovers theory of entrepreneurship (KSTE) and on previous literature on the complex and systemic nature of green technologies, we have tested the relevance of local knowledge stocks, distinguishing between clean and dirty stocks, in the creation of green start-ups. Moreover, the effects of the technological composition of local stocks have been investigated, by focusing on both related and unrelated technological variety, as well as on coherence. Consistently with the recent literature, green start-ups are associated with higher levels of variety, thus pointing to the relevance of diverse and heterogeneous knowledge sources, although in related and complementary technological fields.

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Environmental performance, manufacturing sectors and firm growth: structural factors and dynamic relationships

Cited by 22 publications

References 46 publications

Innovation complementarity and environmental productivity effects: Reality or delusion? Evidence from the EU

Innovation complementarity and environmental productivity effects: Reality or delusion? Evidence from the EU

Green startups and local knowledge bases: newborn suppliers of energy related technologies in Italian provinces

Green start-ups and local knowledge spillovers from clean and dirty technologies

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