Greentech Innovation and Diffusion

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXIII

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2. Introduction

   • Philipp H. Hoff

   Pages 1-6

3. Review of existing Knowledge about greentech

   • Philipp H. Hoff

   Pages 7-23

4. Review of other relevant literature

   • Philipp H. Hoff

   Pages 24-118

5. Theoretical Framework

   • Philipp H. Hoff

   Pages 119-136

6. Empirical analysis

   • Philipp H. Hoff

   Pages 137-209

7. Final discussion and implications

   • Philipp H. Hoff

   Pages 210-222

8. Executive summary

   • Philipp H. Hoff

   Pages 223-225

9. Back Matter

   Pages 227-258

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The world is going green. Sustainable technologies, such as renewable energy and electric vehicles, are increasingly becoming part of our daily life. This dissertation fills the ensuing gap by providing an insight into the emerging German greentech industry, one of the largest in the world. It develops an integrated and interdisciplinary theoretical framework in which to assess the relationships between innovation, growth and financing from a firm-level perspective; it then tests this framework empirically. In essence, the study finds that: (1) Innovative activity and corporate growth depend heavily on the availability of capital. At the same time, it appears that particularly innovative firms are more likely to face financial constraints. (2) A lack of funds is very apparent for around a quarter of the firms investigated and seems most severe in the early part of the growth state, where firms focus on commercializing existing products. (3) Government support programs only partially offset these effects​

Philipp Hoff obtained his doctorate with Prof. Dr. Thomas Berndt at University of St. Gallen.

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