Determinantes da inovação ambiental para as firmas europeias

Abstract

The maintaining to the high degree of development that provides a vas complexity of economic activity together with the fight against climate change that has been occurring on the planet is a diligence of the work in progress. In these terms, environmental innovation presents itself as a foundation for correlating eco-sustainable practices with economic progress. Thereby, the objective of this work is find aspects which encourage firms to adopt eco-sustainable practices in Europe, and before that, verify their behavior. Thus, the work uses the multivariate analysis (Cluster Analysis and Factorial Analysis) with the support of data from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) released by Eurostat, to 2014. The results obtained demonstrate that firms have two major sourches of incentive to adopt eco innovation: the Government and consumers. The sectors that have great interaction tend to have the same behavior in relation to eco-innovation.