Policy Instruments for Eco-Innovation in Asian Countries

Policy instruments for pollution control in developing countries.

Economic development in developing countries must be accomplished in a manner that does not harm the environment with pollution. Pollution harms human health and productivity. Thus appropriate strategies must be developed that promote growth, reduce poverty, and protect the environment. A review of the current literature is performed with attention paid to cost-effective interventions i.e., ...

Eco-innovation of enterprises operating in Poland against the background of European Union countries

Eco-innovation is any innovation that leads to sustainable development by limiting the negative impact of production activities on the environment, increasing the resilience of nature to loads or ensuring greater efficiency and responsibility in the use of natural resources. Eco-innovations are the opportunity for enterprises. Their introduction contributes to reducing the costs of doing busine...

Competition Policy and Innovation in Developing Countries: Empirical Evidence

Firms in Eastern Europe and Central Asia that feel their competitors pressure them to innovate are more likely to innovate than firms do not. But price competition also reduces rents—and therefore the resources that firms have to invest. This paper assesses how competition policy affects these two different aspects of competition and how each affect innovation. It finds that enforcing competiti...

Financing Eco-innovation

Measuring Eco-Innovation

P are constantly searching for ways to reconcile the goals of economic growth and environmental protection. Underlying this is the belief that the introduction of cleaner technologies and more effi cient environmental management processes could help reduce the costs of environmental protection and contribute to growth and jobs. Prince Hassan of Jordan and President of the Club of Rome noted in ...