Do Government Policies Foster Environmental Performance of Enterprises from CEE Region?

Lewandowska, Małgorzata Stefania

dc.contributor.author	Lewandowska, Małgorzata Stefania	en
dc.date.accessioned	2017-02-07T12:00:17Z
dc.date.available	2017-02-07T12:00:17Z
dc.date.issued	2016-09-24	en
dc.identifier.issn	1508-2008	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/20511
dc.description.abstract	In recent years, EU countries, including these from the Central Eastern European (CEE) region has recognised, that eco-innovation should be treated as strategic priority of their economies. The aim of this paper is to present a cross-country analysis of the connection between eco-innovation and its main drivers within firms from selected CEE countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Romania) and Germany. The empirical part is based on micro-data for Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2006-2008. Based on the results of stepwise regression between main policy actions sustaining innovation activity and eco-innovation performance we can conclude, that financial support for innovation activities has a rather limited role in promoting eco-innovation. At the same time enterprises from the CEE region regard environmental regulations as the most important drivers of eco-innovation. In Germany, a country ranked in the highest category in the Eco-Innovation Scoreboard, the variety of forces that influence eco-innovation is much more wide-ranging. This indicates that government actions should take a broader look and lay the more general bases fostering the model of a green growth.	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Comparative Economic Research;19	en
dc.rights	This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0	en
dc.subject	Central and Eastern Europe	en
dc.subject	Eco-innovation	en
dc.subject	Environmental regulations	en
dc.subject	Community Innovation Survey (CIS)	en
dc.title	Do Government Policies Foster Environmental Performance of Enterprises from CEE Region?	en
dc.page.number	45-67	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Ph.D., Warsaw School of Economics, Institute of International Management and Marketing	en
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dc.identifier.doi	10.1515/cer-2016-0020	en

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