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Abstract
To mitigate environmental concerns and fight against climate change, eco-innovation provides an opportunity to establish France's leading role to overcome sustainability challenges. In this thesis, we investigate different aspects of eco-innovation focusing on French manufacturing firms. Firstly, we examine how collaboration between firms affects the decision of firms that currently undertake R&D to take the next step and also invest in increasingly complex environmental or eco-innovation. Our results show that R&D collaboration is essential in stimulating eco-innovation. Secondly, we examine whether stringent environmental regulations harm firm competitiveness and further whether regulatory induced eco-innovation could offset environmental abatement pressure. Our results suggest that regulations harm business competitiveness and the intermediate effect of eco-innovation is not effective. Finally, we investigate whether firms investing in eco-innovation meet their environmental targets and remain competitive and more specifically, whether eco-innovation helps firms to improve their environmental performance. Results suggest that eco-innovation does not exhibit a significant effect on environmental performance for French manufacturing firms. Overall, this thesis emphasizes the lack of effectiveness of eco-innovation in France, we hope that this thesis can shed some light on the direction of further research.
| Type of Work: | Thesis (Doctorates > Ph.D.) | |||||||||
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| Award Type: | Doctorates > Ph.D. | |||||||||
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| Licence: | All rights reserved | |||||||||
| College/Faculty: | Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Social Sciences | |||||||||
| School or Department: | Department of Economics Birmingham Business School | |||||||||
| Funders: | None/not applicable | |||||||||
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
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| URI: | http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/10465 |
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