Community Innovation Survey conducted in 2009. The main purpose of the paper is to test whether different types of eco … the role of energy and raw materials prices as well as taxation as drivers for eco-innovation. Customer requirements are … Innovation ; Environmental Impacts ; Discrete Choice Models ; Regulation ; Cost Savings ; Demand Pull ; Environmental Policy …

are induced by regulations. However, innovation that increases a firm’s material or energy efficiency in terms of material … voluntary innovations, although the effect is significantly larger for regulation-driven innovation.We conclude that the Porter … hypothesis does not hold in general for its “strong” version but has to be qualified by the type of environmental innovation. Our …

distinguish clearly between adoption and use of energy-related technologies (process innovation in the broad sense) and product … innovation in energy-related fields. We take into consideration four energy-related policy instruments (and expected demand for … adoption or innovation by interacting adoption and innovation variables with policy instrument dummies. We test our hypotheses …