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SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Volume 52, Issue 4, Pages 891-904Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-017-9939-6
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Green technology; Firm growth; Age; Quantile fixed effects
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This paper investigates the relationship between green/non-green technologies and firm growth. By combining the literature on eco-innovations, industrial organisation and entrepreneurial studies, we examine the dependence of this relationship on the pace at which firms grow and the age of the firm. From a dataset of 5498 manufacturing firms in Italy for the period of 2000-2008, longitudinal fixed effects quantile models are estimated, in which the firm's age is set to moderate the effects of green and non-green patents on employment growth. We find that the positive effect of green technologies on growth is greater than that of non-green technologies. However, this result does not apply to struggling and rapidly growing firms. With fast-growing (above the median) firms, age moderates the growth effect of green technologies. Inconsistent with the extant literature, this moderation effect is positive: firm experience appears important for the growth benefits of green technologies, possibly relative to the complexity of their management.
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