Les normes constituent-elles des incitations à innover pour les éco-industries? Une approche en termes de décision

摘要

Environmental standards and the technologies that allow complying with them are taken in a more or less well co-ordinated coevolutionary process. This paper proposes a formalised approach of the choice of an industrial executive facing the possible emergence of new standards who has to decide if he launches a R&D programme, which aims at making available an innovative environmentally sounded technology. The impact of the occurrence probabilities of the new standard and of the R&D programme success, and its achievment time influence the decision to enter it (measured by the model) and, indirectly, the type of innovation in the field of environmental services (few specific innovations and most technology transfers from other industrial sectors).