Investigating policy and R&D effects on environmental innovation: : A meta-analysis

• Autores: Claudia Ghisetti, Federico Pontoni
• Localización: Ecological Economics, ISSN-e 1873-6106, Nº. 118, 2015, págs. 56-77
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the last decades, a wide research effort has been devoted at the analysis of the determinants of environmental innovation (EI). Whereas agreement seemed to emerge around a cluster of determinants, mainly “Technology push”, “Market pull”, “Policy push–pull” and “firm specific factors”, empirical analyses have failed to provide strong confirmation on the relevance of some core variables. After a qualitative discussion of this literature, we empirically assess it by exploiting meta-regression-analysis techniques to test the effectiveness of two determinants: policy and R&D. Our findings are clear: as for the first, we show that only certain types of policy have proven to affect EI, in particular regulatory stringency. As for R&D, we show that the use of estimation methods is not neutral to the outcome of the primary studies