The Porter Hypothesis at 20: Can Environmental Regulation Enhance Innovation and Competitiveness?

A Survey of the Literature on Environmental Innovation Based on Main Path Analysis

“…The literature review by Ambec et al . () also focuses on how environmental regulation affects innovation, but it differs from the work by Popp et al . () since it centres around the argument that well‐designed regulation can enhance competitiveness by stimulating the search for new, profitable opportunities through EI.…”

Revisiting the Porter Hypothesis: An Empirical Analysis of Green Innovation for the Netherlands

“…Wagner (2003), Popp et al (2010), Ambec and Barla (2006), and Ambec et al (2011) for an extended review). For the Netherlands the evidence seems to be very scarce.…”

From “Green Growth” to sound policies: An overview

“…Even non-believers commonly admit that since pollution is generally waste and energy is expensive, innovation will sometimes make it profitable for businesses to go beyond what environmental regulators require. (Ambec et al (2011) provide a useful discussion of post-1995 work on the Porter Hypothesis.) Thus Plambeck (2012) provides a number of examples of firms that have voluntarily reduced greenhouse gas emissions in their supply chains in ways that enhanced their profitability.…”