General wisdom concerning the factors affecting the adoption of cleaner technologies: a survey 1990–2007

Montalvo, Carlos

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2007.10.002

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“…The drivers of eco-innovations have been extensively discussed by the literature (Horbach, 2008;Montalvo, 2008;Horbach et al, 2012), which has recognized the importance of supplypush, demand-pull and regulatory factors in affecting the development of green innovations.…”

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Financial constraints and public funding of eco-innovation: empirical evidence from European SMEs

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractFinancial constraints have an important impact on the development of eco-innovations, but their effect varies according to the type of funds taken into account. This article studies the impact of the lack of funds on the development of eco-innovations, distinguishing between internal, external and public funds. In particular, we investigate the interaction between public funding, on the one hand, and internal and other external sources of funding. The empirical analysis is based upon a sample of European SMEs belonging to different sectors that are involved in products, processes and organizational eco-innovations. Our resultsshow that a lack of internal funding always decreases the probability to introduce ecoinnovations, while the lack of private external funds does not appear to hinder the development of eco-innovations. Interestingly, we find that access to public funds or incentives is effective in improving a firm's ability to introduce eco-innovations, but only when the firm is not short of funds (either from internal or external sources), thus suggesting that public funds are somewhat complementary to other funds. Further analysis shows that these effects are mostly relevant in small firms.

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“…The second stimulating factor concerns the suppliers. They play a significant role to promote firm innovation (Arundel & Rose, 1999;Montalvo, 2008;Visser et al, 2008). The provider of biomoleculars develops a strategic plan to promote innovation and encourage the adoption of the product by new users.…”

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“…Companies with a larger workforce, more experience and which use high quality production process according to the ISO 9001 standards should have a greater capacity to innovate (Horbach, 2008;Montalvo, 2008;Traore & Rose, 2003;Rehfeld et al, 2007 figure 3 summaries all this hypothesis.…”

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Determinants of Environmental Product Innovation in the Detergent and Maintenance Sector: Application for the European Ecolabel Certification

Mehamli¹

2012

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The aim of this article is to determine the relevant factors of environmental product innovation. In the sector of detergent and maintenance products the European Ecolabel certification, as an environmental voluntary policy, is considered one of multiple kinds of environmental innovation. According to the empirical analysis (a survey was conducted in the French market) we find that the strategy of the biotechnological firm, the market demand, the certification benefits (brand image) and policy regulation (REACH directive…) seem to be important factors in the European Ecolabel certification. Although, this voluntary policy drives some firms to innovation, the environmental performance and accession of the most firms in this sector are still a challenge. Firms which have used biomolecular substances, under suppliers' incentives effect, have not systematically developed European Ecolabel certified products.

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“…To effectively mitigate environmental problems, environmental technologies need to be developed and diffused rapidly on a global scale (Montalvo, 2008). However, the development and diffusion of environmental technologies (or at least some types) is often impeded by externalities and market failures, slowing the diffusion of these technologies despite the potential benefits their development and adoption could deliver (Carrillo-Hermosilla et al, 2009;Jaffe et al, 2005).…”

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“…From the firm's perspective, research has investigated how firms access and utilise export promotion initiatives in export (e.g Kumcu et al, 1995). Although Montalvo (2008), highlights diffusion promotion as an important research trajectory for environmental technologies, this line of enquiry it is yet to be thoroughly investigated. From the gaps highlighted in governmental efforts and in the scientific literature, this thesis addresses how to promote the export of environmental technologies.…”

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Promotion of Environmental Technology Export : Governmental Initiatives and Business Concepts

Kanda¹

2014

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This qualitative and quantitative study examines governmental initiatives and business concepts as approaches to promote the export of environmental technology. Here, environmental technology refers to technologies (products, services, organizational models, and large-scaled technical systems) whose development and use actually provide or intends to provide a better environmental performance than their relevant alternatives from a life cycle perspective. Using literature reviews, surveys and interviews, this thesis collects primary and secondary data from national government level, private Swedish environmental technology firms and Swedish municipality-owned firms. Three main research questions guide this thesis. These questions address how different governments in selected countries promote the export of environmental technologies and how private Swedish environmental technology firms perceive the effectiveness of governmental export promotion initiatives in realising export. In a complementary view, the thesis focuses on fundamental components of business concepts for export of environmental technologies by municipality-owned companies. These three units of analysis (i.e. – governmental initiatives, private companies and municipality-owned companies) are influenced by the characteristics of the environmental technology sector in Sweden. The main results from the study suggest three conclusions. First, governmental initiatives intended to promote the export of environmental technology are largely similar to approaches that intend to promote the export of “conventional” technology. These initiatives can be categorised as: financial aid programs, information programs, education and training programs, and trade mobility related programs. When it comes to perceived effectiveness of governmental promotion initiatives by private firms, results indicate that firms that accessed more than one type of governmental promotion, particularly those including financial support, perceived governmental promotion as contributing to realising export. For municipality-owned companies exporting environmental technology, the thesis proposes seven fundamental components of a business concept as: market (including regulation), finance, resources, activities, partnership (private-public partnership), ownership and responsibility, and legitimacy. Among these factors, regulation, public-private partnership, and legitimacy are particular to environmental technologies. These results suggest a dynamic balance between generic and tailored export promotion initiatives for environmental technology exporters, with much attention to program implementation as is given to program content formulation. The components proposed for municipality export opens up a potentially new research trajectory on environmentally conscious design that considers technological as well as non-technological changes based on large-scaled environmental technology systems for system-wide environmental improvements

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General wisdom concerning the factors affecting the adoption of cleaner technologies: a survey 1990–2007

Cited by 241 publications

References 43 publications

Financial constraints and public funding of eco-innovation: empirical evidence from European SMEs

Financial constraints and public funding of eco-innovation: empirical evidence from European SMEs

Determinants of Environmental Product Innovation in the Detergent and Maintenance Sector: Application for the European Ecolabel Certification

Promotion of Environmental Technology Export : Governmental Initiatives and Business Concepts

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