Table 1.

Types of eco-innovations applied in the survey

TypeDefinitionAuthorAbbreviation
Integrated eco-innovationsThey relate to integrated innovations that make the process of production or the product more eco-efficient than similar processes or products. Andersen (2008); Kemp and Pearson (2007) ITEC 
Environmental technologies of pollution controlThey pollution control-related technologies, such as wastewater treatment, clean-up of pollution released in the environment, new cleaner manufacturing processes and/or that use the resources more efficiently, equipment to treat waste, and noise control. Kemp and Pearson (2007) TAMB 
Organizational and macro-organizational innovationIt introduces organization methods and management systems to deal with environmental issues in the production and products. It includes systemic solutions among organizationsKemp and Pearson (2007); Andersen (2008) IORG 
Add-on eco-innovationsThey are products (artifacts or services) that improve the customer’s environmental performance, including technologies and services that clean, dilute, recycle, measure, control and transport the pollution as well as the ones that improve the supply of natural resources and energy. Andersen (2008) IADI 
Green innovation systems – alternative productsAlternative production and consumption systems that are environmentally more benign than the existing ones. Kemp and Pearson (2007); Andersen (2008) ISIS 
General PurposeTechnologies of general use that affect the economy and may contribute for a series of other innovationsAndersen (2008) EPG

Notes:

ITEC (Integrated ecologic innovations); TAMB (Environmental technologies of pollution control); IORG (Organizational and macro-organizational innovation); IADI (Add-on eco-innovations); ISIS (Green innovation systems – alternative products); EPG (General Purpose)

Source: Research data

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