The geography of environmental innovation: a rural/urban comparison

Danielle Galliano, Simon Nadel and Pierre Triboulet

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Abstract: This paper aims to contribute to enlarge a geography of eco-innovation. The objective is to study what kind of spatial externalities (specialization, related and unrelated variety) has the most positive impact on eco-innovation, according to firm's location (rural, peri-urban, urban). We empirically test this framework using a hurdle negative binomial model on firm-level data drawn from the French Community Innovation Survey (CIS). The results show that spatial externalities have different effects depending on the firm's engagement and breadth of eco-innovation as well as on its location. Marshallian specialization has a positive effect both on engagement and breadth of eco-innovations unlike unrelated variety, which negatively impacts breadth of eco-innovation. With regard to the firm's location, related variety is particularly correlated with the eco-innovation breadth of rural firms, whereas specialization is positively correlated with the breadth of eco-innovations of peri-urban firms. As for urban firms, spatial externalities seem to have less impact on their eco-innovation related behavior.

Keywords: spatial externalities; related variety; rural; French industry; Eco-innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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Published in Annals of Regional Science, 2023, 71, pp.27-59. ⟨10.1007/s00168-022-01149-3⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s00168-022-01149-3

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