DRIVERS OF ECO-INNOVATION WITHIN WASTE ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT FIELD

Corina Marinescu (), Carmen Ciocoiu and Claudiu Cicea ()
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Corina Marinescu: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Piata Romana, 6, Bucharest, Romania
Claudiu Cicea: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Piata Romana, 6, Bucharest, Romania

Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, 2015, vol. 10, issue 4, 5-18

Abstract: The need for eco-innovation in the waste electrical and electronic equipment field (WEEE, e-waste) raised not only from environmental or sustainable reasons, but also from economic and social perspectives. This article provides an overview of the literature regarding eco-innovation and distinctive ways to consider its determinants or drivers. In addition, it presents the most important drivers on eco-innovation in European Union. Moreover, it reports specific determinants on eco-innovation in the waste of electrical and electronic equipment field, namely: regulation, policies, funding sources for stimulating eco-innovation, projects related to eco-innovation, cost-savings, customer benefits, knowledge transfer networks, youth education through specific courses, stimulating environmental consciousness, and product standardization.

Keywords: drivers; eco-innovation; knowledge transfer; WEEE. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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