The maturing literature on innovation has recognized the processes of
sectoral and technological systems of innovation as helpful frameworks
to analyze environmental innovation – a field whose importance continues
to grow amidst contemporary regulatory pressures, for example, on
maritime industry and shipping. This paper intertwines these key
innovation concepts and applies them to classify and systematize an
environmental product innovation: marine scrubber systems. The paper
also addresses the linkage between innovation policy and environmental
regulation and presents an overall framework to visualize and
systematize conceptual connections between sectoral and technological
systems of innovation to further develop and manage these complex
systems of environmental innovation inducement. The paper applies
technological and legal materials depicting the context of maritime
scrubber systems as technological responses to more rigid environmental
regulation by addressing their implications for market potential and
change. The results underline the importance of environmental
regulations as the driver of the development of technological innovation
systems centered on environmental innovation.