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We know a great deal about innovations that help save costs or that render superior services. The economics of the innovation and diffusion processes of such innovations have been studied quite extensively. Our knowledge, however, of the economic stimuli for innovations that help save the natural environment is rather limited. We know that such innovations depend to a large extent on government interventions. But how and to what extent government policy and different policy instruments affect firms’ and consumers’ willingness to develop and use cleaner innovations is quite unclear.
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Kemp, R., Olsthoorn, X., Oosterhuis, F., Verbruggen, H. (1994). Policy Instruments to Stimulate Cleaner Technologies. In: Opschoor, H., Turner, K. (eds) Economic Incentives and Environmental Policies. Environment, Science and Society, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0856-0_13
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