This paper contributes to the debate on the inducement of environmental innovations by analyzing the extent to which endogenous inducement mechanisms spur the generation of greener technologies in contexts characterized by weak exogenous inducement pressures. In the presence of a fragile environmental regulatory framework, inducement can indeed be endogenous and environmental innovations may be spurred by firms' reactions to their direct or related environmental performance. Cross-sector analysis focuses on a panel of Italian regions, over the time span 2003-2007, and is conducted by implementing zero-inflated regression models for count data variables. The empirical results suggest that in a context characterized by a weak regulatory framework, such as the Italian one, environmental performance has significant and complementary within- and between-sector effects on the generation of green technologies. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
- Green technologies
- Environmental performance
- Regional NAMEA
- Technological innovation
- Knowledge production function
- CORPORATE SOCIAL-RESPONSIBILITY
- FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
- PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH
- POLICY INSTRUMENTS
- INDUCED INNOVATION
- EMPIRICAL-EVIDENCE
- PORTER HYPOTHESIS
- PATENT STATISTICS
- ITALIAN REGIONS
- ENERGY
[Ghisetti, Claudia] Univ Bologna, Dept Econ, I-40126 Bologna, Italy; [Quatraro, Francesco] Univ Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, GREDEG, F-06560 Valbonne, France
Quatraro, F (reprint author), Univ Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, GREDEG, 250 Rue Albert Einstein, F-06560 Valbonne, France.