@article{Gilli:162371,
      recid = {162371},
      author = {Gilli, Marianna and Mancinelli, Susanna and Mazzanti,  Massimiliano},
      title = {Innovation Complementarity and Environmental Productivity  Effects: Reality or Delusion? Evidence from the EU},
      address = {2013-10},
      number = {824-2016-54873},
      series = {CCSD},
      pages = {33},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {Innovation is a key element behind the achievement of  desired environmental and economic performances. Regarding  CO2, mitigation strategies would require cuts in emissions  of around 80-90% with respect to 1990. We investigate  whether complementarity, namely integration, between the  adoption of environmental innovation measures and other  technological and organizational innovations is a factor  that has supported reduction in CO2 emissions per value  added, that is environmental productivity. We merge new EU  CIS and WIOD meso level data to assess the innovation  effects on sector CO2 performances at a wide EU level. We  find that jointly adopting different innovations is not a  significant factor to increase environmental productivity,  neither for the entire economy nor for manufacturing or  narrower ETS sectors. The only case where a complementarity  arises is for Northern EU manufacturing sectors that  integrate eco innovations with product and process  innovations to support environmental productivity. We  believe that the lack of integrated innovation adoption  behind environmental productivity performance is a signal  of the current weaknesses economies face in tackling  climate change and green economy challenges. Incremental  rather than more radical strategies have predominated so  far; this is probably insufficient when we look at  long-term economic and environmental goals.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/162371},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.162371},
}