@book{9f3f79ab26464f72845c47bbd83cc5a0,
title = "Innovation and environmental stringency: The case of sulfur dioxide abatement",
abstract = "A weak version of the Porter hypothesis claims that strict environmental policy provides positive innovation incentives, hence triggering improved competitiveness and securing environmental quality.In a comparative way, this paper empirically tests this hypothesis across countries by linking environmental stringency to innovation proxied by patents in the field of SO2 abatement over the period 1970-2000.Three different models of environmental stringency are examined.Two of these models do not reveal a positive significant effect on innovation as a result of increased stringency.In the theoretically preferred model, however, a positive relationship between environmental stringency and innovation is obtained.",
keywords = "patents, pollution control, environmental stringency, sulfur dioxide, innovation",
author = "{de Vries}, F.P. and C.A.A.M. Withagen",
note = "Pagination: 34",
year = "2005",
language = "English",
volume = "2005-18",
series = "Discussion Papers / CentER for Economic Research",
publisher = "Microeconomics",
}