of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance … characterise the economic growth-environmental performance relationship. Signals of inverted U shape appears: this may be a signal …

This paper aims at analysing the role of the environment in innovative strategies based on firm economic performance …-related effects (the core of performance indicators) are not significant. Mainstream hypotheses related to eventual negative impacts … performance do not seem to be present …

The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and … performance. The complementarity with networking is a consequential step. Networking by itself cannot thus play a role in … networking are to be sustained and favoured. our evidence suggests that R&D may be a single main driver of performance. Since R …

The achievement of positive environmental performance at national level could strongly depend on differences in local …, innovation spillovers and regional policies in shaping the geographical distribution of environmental performance achievements …

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, but being a minor gas compared to CO2, the overall performance on GHGs is not compliant with Kyoto targets, which do not …