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Towards an integrated approach to promoting environmental innovation and national competitiveness

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  • Rainer Quitzow

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This paper explores how governments can promote environmentally friendly technologies while sustaining national competitiveness. Taking the Porter Hypothesis as its starting point, it briefly discusses the related literature on the relationship between environmental policy and competitiveness. It concludes that this literature has significant limitations and, therefore, proposes an alternative approach to tackling this question. It begins by reviewing the literature on innovation-oriented environmental policy. Next, it provides an overview of the literature on the role of government policy in promoting national competitiveness. It finds that recent shifts in the latter debate have increased the potential for integrating the two policy domains. The paper concludes with a discussion of the potentials and challenges of such an integrated policy, drawing on examples from the field of renewable energy. Based on this empirical example, a number of policy conclusions for both industrialized and emerging countries are presented.

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  • Rainer Quitzow, 2013. "Towards an integrated approach to promoting environmental innovation and national competitiveness," Innovation and Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 3(2), pages 277-296, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:riadxx:v:3:y:2013:i:2:p:277-296
    DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2013.825070
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    1. Huarng, Kun-Huang & Yu, Tiffany Hui-Kuang, 2022. "Analysis of Global Innovation Index by structural qualitative association," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 182(C).
    2. Teemu Makkonen & Sari Repka, 2016. "The innovation inducement impact of environmental regulations on maritime transport: a literature review," International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 10(1), pages 69-86.
    3. Quitzow, Rainer, 2015. "Assessing policy strategies for the promotion of environmental technologies: A review of India's National Solar Mission," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 44(1), pages 233-243.
    4. Yu, Tiffany Hui-Kuang & Huarng, Kun-Huang & Huang, Duen-Huang, 2021. "Causal complexity analysis of the Global Innovation Index," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 137(C), pages 39-45.
    5. Eduardo Medeiros & Bernardo Valente & Vasco Gonçalves & Paula Castro, 2022. "How Impactful Are Public Policies on Environmental Sustainability? Debating the Portuguese Case of PO SEUR 2014–2020," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(13), pages 1-17, June.

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