ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the links between environmental policy and industrial innovation. It seeks out lessons for policy-makers, for industrialists and for all who wish to understand how to reduce people's impacts on the environment with the least possible restriction on economic growth and quality of life. The chapter focuses by a strong sense that the degree to which policy-makers are cognisant of, and sensitive to, the needs of industry varies enormously and that there are valuable lessons to be learned from different national approaches. The appearance of the revisionist view has played a part in persuading policymakers to think again about the effects of environmental policy. What is required is an approach which encompasses the complexity both of innovation and of the political context, formulation and execution of environmental policy. The methodology used in the industry studies is similar to the approach taken in the country studies.
