How Should We Study the Relationship between Environmental Regulation and Innovation
How Should We Study the Relationship between Environmental Regulation and Innovation
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10.1007/978-3-662-12069-9_4
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2000
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R. Kemp;Keith Smith;G. Becher
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作者：
R. Kemp;Keith Smith;G. Becher
本文为理解环境管制与创新之间的关系提供了一个概念性框架。它试图扩大环境导向研究中使用的创新概念，同时挑战监管是创新的直接促进者或抑制者的观点。关于创新，我们提出了一个“系统”框架，该框架强调创新的集体性和互动性，作为分析监管影响的复杂的机构、社会和网络方面的适当切入点。在监管方面，我们试图挑战监管对创新影响的刺激-反应模式。我们驳斥了这样一种观点，即监管要么以任何简单的方式停止创新，要么以任何简单的方式启动创新。相反，我们认为，监管塑造或调节了跨企业网络和相关行业集团的创新。思考创新形成的一种富有成效的方式是，企业将创新作为一种消除约束的方法。这些可能是他们所面对的市场规模或地理位置的限制，也可能是劳动力供应或金融方面的限制，等等。一个重要的制约因素是监管环境，这并不一定阻碍创新，而是说，如果公司要创新，他们必须在某些业绩参数方面这样做。
This paper offers a conceptual framework for understanding the relationship between environmental regulation and innovation. It seeks to widen the concepts of innovation which are used in environment-oriented studies, while at the same time challenging the idea that regulation is either a straightforward facilitator or inhibitor of innovation. With respect to innovation, we present a ‘systems’ framework, one which emphasises the collective and interactive character of innovation, as an appropriate entry point for analysing the complex institutional, social and networking aspects of the impacts of regulation. With respect to regulation, we seek to challenge the stimulus-response model of the impacts of regulation on innovation. We contest the view that regulation either stops or starts innovation in any simple way. Rather, we take the view that regulation shapes or modulates innovation across networks of firms, and across groups of related industries. A productive way to think about the shaping of innovation is that firms innovate as a method of removing constraints. These may be constraints on the size or geographical location of the market they face, or constraints in labour supply, or finance, and so on. A significant constraint is the regulatory environment, which does not necessarily hinder innovation, but rather says that if firms are to innovate then they must do so with respect to certain performance parameters.