ECO-INNOVATION, FIRM'S PERFORMANCE AND INDUSTRIAL DYNAMICS
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2018/2019
- Teacher
- NICOLO' BARBIERI
- Credits
- 7
- Curriculum
- Green economy and sustainability
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- SECS-P/01
Training objectives
- The course aims to provide students with both fundamental knowledge and the latest research developments concerning environmental innovations - "eco-innovation" - following a micro and macro economic perspective.
Prerequisites
- No prerequisites
Course programme
- The course is characterized by two complementary modules:
1) Eco- innovations and economic performances, which is mainly focused on the undersanding of the concept of EI, its determinats and its effect on the economic system.
2) Environmental regulations and eco- innovations, which focuses on the role of regulation as a factor enhacing or hindering EI development
Each module is structured into two parts. The first part focuses on the fundamentals of the theory on environmental innovation, whilst the second part analyzes the most recent and applied developments in the literature on the subject.
Topics covered include:
1. environmental innovation introduction, definitions and dimensions
2. Barriers
3. Determinants
4. Case studies of significant success / failure
5. Empirical Applications and tools to analyze innovation from existing databases
6. Analysis of the environmental effects of innovation on the short and long-term competitiveness, with micro and macro economic focuses
7. Analysis of environmental effects
8. Role of environmental regulation in stimulating innovation and its effects on competitiveness (Porter Hypothesis) and firms' localization choices (pollution haven hypothesis)
9. Analysis of the different environmental regulation and measurement methods (eg. OECD environmental indicators stringency)
10. Green Jobs. Didactic methods
- Lectures
Learning assessment procedures
- Written exam and essay on one selcted course topic to be agreed with both Professors at least one month before the chosen exam date.
Reference texts
- Book: Carrillo, J., Pablo del. Río González, & Totti. Könnölä. (2009). Eco-innovation: when sustainability and competitiveness shake hands. Palgrave Macmillan.
Articles:
Aghion, P., Bloom, N., Blundell, R., Griffith, R., & Howitt, P. (2002).Competition and innovation: An inverted U relationship (No. w9269). National Bureau of Economic Research.
Ambec, S., Cohen, M. A., Elgie, S., & Lanoie, P. (2013). The Porter hypothesis at 20: can environmental regulation enhance innovation and competitiveness?.Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 7(1), 2-22.
Barbieri, N., Ghisetti, C., Gilli, M., Marin, G., & Nicolli, F. (2016). A Survey of the Literature on Environmental Innovation Based on Main Path Analysis. Journal of Economic Surveys, 30(3), 596-623.
Cole, M. A. (2004). Trade, the pollution haven hypothesis and the environmental Kuznets curve: examining the linkages. Ecological economics,48(1), 71-81.
Costantini, V. and Mazzanti, M. (2012) On the green and innovative side of trade competitiveness? The impact of environmental policies and innovation on EU exports. Research Policy 41(1): 132–153.
Ekins, P. (2010) Eco-innovation for environmental sustainability: concepts, progress and policies. International Economics and Economic Policy 7(2-3): 267–290.
Fagerberg, J. (2003). Schumpeter and the revival of evolutionary economics: an appraisal of the literature. Journal of evolutionary economics, 13(2), 125-159.
Franco, C., & Marin, G. (2014). The effect of within-sector, upstream and downstream energy taxes on innovation and productivity.
Ghisetti, C. and Pontoni, F. (2015) Investigating policy and R&D effects on environmental innovation: a meta-analysis. Ecological Economics 118: 57–66.
Ghisetti, C. and Quatraro, F. (2013) Beyond inducement in climate change: does environmental performance spur environmental technologies? A regional analysis of cross-sectoral differences. Ecological Economics 96: 99–113.
Ghisetti, C. and Rennings, K. (2014) Environmental innovations and profitability: how does it pay to be
green? An empirical analysis on the German innovation survey. Journal of Cleaner Production 75: 106– 117.
Ghisetti, C.,Marzucchi, A. andMontresor, S. (2015) The open eco-innovation mode. An empirical investigation of eleven European countries. Research Policy 44(5): 1080-1093.
Horbach, J. (2008) Determinants of environmental innovation—new evidence from German panel data sources. Research Policy 37(1): 163–173.
Horbach, J., Rammer, C. and Rennings, K. (2012) Determinants of eco-innovations by type of environmental impact—the role of regulatory push/pull, technology push and market pull. Ecological Economics 78: 112–122.
Lanoie, P., Laurent-Lucchetti, J., Johnstone, N. and Ambec, S. (2011) Environmental policy, innovation and performance: new insights on the Porter hypothesis. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 20(3): 803–842.
Marin, G. (2014) Do eco-innovations harm productivity growth through crowding out? Results of an extended CDM model for Italy. Research Policy 43(2): 301–317.
Mazzanti, M. and Zoboli, R. (2006) Economic instruments and induced innovation: the European policies on end-of-life vehicles. Ecological Economics 58(2): 318–337.
Nesta, L., Vona, F. and Nicolli, F. (2014) Environmental policies, competition and innovation in renewable energy. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 67(3): 396–411.
Porter, M. E. and van der Linde, C. (1995) Toward a new conception of the environment-competitiveness
relationship. Journal of Economic Perspectives 97–118.
Rennings, K. (2000) Redefining innovation—eco-innovation research and the contribution from ecological economics. Ecological Economics 32(2): 319–332.
Vona, F., & Nicolli, F. (2014). Energy market liberalization and renewable energy policies in OECD countries.
