caa a22 4500 605534454 CHVBK 20210128100842.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10663-014-9273-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10663-014-9273-z Carbon dioxide reducing environmental innovations, sector upstream/downstream integration and policy: evidence from the EU [Elektronische Daten] [Massimiliano Mazzanti, Giovanni Marin, Susanna Mancinelli, Francesco Nicolli] Eco innovations (EI) that address climate change mitigation require pressures and knowledge from outside the firm's and sector's boundaries, due to the radicalness and variety of techno-organisational knowledge the economy needs to curb emissions by 90% in the long run and 40% in the medium run, at least according to EU targets. The role of policy as a tool that potentially tackles two externalities—innovation and environmental market failures—has been studied over the past decade. Sector integration, which is increasingly relevant for understanding the economic, environmental and innovation performances of countries, might additionally influence innovations, and it is relatively overlooked. We integrate these two perspectives to provide evidence on the adoption of EI in EU sectors over 2006-2008. Using past CO2 emission intensity as a proxy of policy stringency we find that emission intensive sectors are more likely to adopt CO2-related eco-innovations. The aforementioned results are valid for both the economy as a whole and for industrial sectors specifically. We additionally show that inter sector integration and knowledge sources matter: we do observe that sectors with more emission intensive upstream ‘partners' eco-innovate more to reduce their CO2 footprints. The positive and significant effect of upstream emission intensity (supplier's emission intensity) on EI is actually stronger than the effect of ‘direct' CO2 emission intensity (policy effect). Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Environmental innovations nationallicence Sector integration nationallicence Induced effects nationallicence Innovation adoption nationallicence NAMEA nationallicence Input output nationallicence EU nationallicence Carbon abatement nationallicence Mazzanti Massimiliano Department of Economics and Management, University of Ferrara and SEEDS, Ferrara, Italy aut Marin Giovanni Ceris-CNR, Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth, National Research Council of Italy, Milan, Italy aut Mancinelli Susanna Department of Economics and Management, University of Ferrara and SEEDS, Ferrara, Italy aut Nicolli Francesco Ceris-CNR, Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth, National Research Council of Italy, Milan, Italy aut Empirica Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 42/4(2015-11-01), 709-735 0340-8744 42:4<709 2015 42 10663 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10663-014-9273-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10663-014-9273-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mazzanti Massimiliano Department of Economics and Management, University of Ferrara and SEEDS, Ferrara, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Marin Giovanni Ceris-CNR, Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth, National Research Council of Italy, Milan, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mancinelli Susanna Department of Economics and Management, University of Ferrara and SEEDS, Ferrara, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nicolli Francesco Ceris-CNR, Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth, National Research Council of Italy, Milan, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Empirica Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 42/4(2015-11-01), 709-735 0340-8744 42:4<709 2015 42 10663