The Influence of Environmental Management on Technical innovation: Evidence from Abundant Mineral Resources Areas

Author

Shi, Yaobo ; Yang, Dongmin ; Lv, Guanghua

Author_Institution

Xi´´an Univ. of Technol., Xi´´an, China

Volume

4

fYear

2010

fDate

26-28 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

562

Lastpage

566

Abstract

It is frequently hypothesized that environment management systems (EMS) may improve firms´ innovation performance. Whether this hypothesis is true based on the relevant policy incentives for income distribution and its environmental innovation. There are two channels which EMS affects technical innovation (1) rich people migrate out region cause lower demand for local environment, (2) small size of the market demand caused by inequalities barriers to technical innovation. Based on ample empirical evidence from Shaanxi province, Our theoretical and empirical results indicate through influences of greater inequalities why EMS have fewer effects on Environmental innovation in rich nature resource area.

Keywords

environmental economics; environmental management; innovation management; minerals; natural resources; EMS; Shaanxi province; environmental innovation; environmental management systems; firm innovation; income distribution; mineral resources; relevant policy incentives; technical innovation; EMS; Inequalities; Innovation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering (ICIII), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kunming

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8829-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIII.2010.615

Filename

5694970