ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book begins with an investigation into the theoretical and empirical findings on why firms adopt normal business technological innovations. This was intended to serves as background to the exposition of factors that may explain the adoption of environmentally benign technologies among manufacturing enterprises in developing countries. The Nigerian environmental regulatory agencies have pollution control laboratories that are reasonably equipped, at least, to the satisfaction of the large majority of the regulators. The book points out that the institutional capacity for environmental regulation is an important determinant of firms' technology responses to the imperatives of environmentally sustainable industrial development. Successful centralised industrial wastewater treatment among manufacturing firm clusters have been reported for some East Asian developing countries such as Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea.
