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Brown sunsets and green dawns in the industrial sector: Environmental innovations, firm behavior and the European emission trading

Borghesi, Simone; Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2012

We study the driving forces behind the adoption of environmental innovations (EI) in the Italian industry over 2006-2008 through analyses of the new wave of Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data that covered for the first time environmental innovation adoptions. We investigate whether the first...

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Environmentally-oriented innovative strategies and firm performances in services: Micro-evidence from Italy

Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - 2007

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. …

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The relationship between environmental efficiency and manufacturing firm's growth

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Zoboli, Roberto - 2008

of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance …-environmental performance relationship. Signals of inverted U shape appear: this may be a signal that both firm strategies and recent policy …

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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - 2007

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 …

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Environmental performance and regional innovation spillovers

Costantini, Valeria; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna - 2010

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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Emissions trends and labour productivity dynamics sector analyses of de-coupling/recoupling on a 1990-2005 Namea

Marin, Giovanni; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2009

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

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Are Regional Systems Greening the Economy? the Role of Environmental Innovations and Agglomeration Forces

Antonioli, Davide; Borghesi, Simone; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2014

performance. …

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On the green side of trade competitiveness? Environmental policies and innovation in the EU

Costantini, Valeria; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2010

This paper aims to explore how the competitiveness of the EU economy, here captured by export dynamics over the medium run (1996-2007), has been affected by environmental regulation both on the public and private sector side. The strong and weak versions of the Porter hypothesis are tested by...

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Social Capital, R&D and Industrial Districts

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Mancinelli, … - 2005

The main idea behind this paper is that social capital is not, as generally suggested by the socio-economic literature, an individual attitude towards something which does not imply privately appropriable economic benefits. Actually, SC might and should be interpreted as a public component of an...

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