of low-carbon energy innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid … document recent trends in energy innovation and discuss the lessons learnt for policy. We then discuss the potential role for … complementary innovation in both physical capital--using smart grids as an example of how policy can help--and human capital, where …

existing knowledge have strongly significant positive effects on innovation. Furthermore, I show that omitting the quality of … patent citations to construct a measure of the usefulness of the existing base of scientific knowledge, I consider the effect … knowledge adversely affects the estimation results …

Historically, innovation in the energy sector proceeded slowly and entrepreneurial start-up firms played a relatively …, integrating intermittent resources creates additional grid management challenges, requiring further innovation. This chapter … documents the evolving roles of innovation and entrepreneurship in the energy sector. First, we provide an overview of the …

literature on environmental innovation and diffusion, with a focus on studies relevant to the development of clean energy …

This paper examines the effect of environmental policies on technological innovation in the specific case of renewable …

While many studies have looked at innovation and adoption of technologies separately, the two processes are linked …

Using patent data from the United States, Japan, and Germany, this paper examines both the innovation and diffusion of … environmental regulations. Moreover, any technology transfer that occurs appears to be indirect. Domestic innovation occurs even for …

links energy-related R&D to changes in the price of carbon. Drawing on my experiences from empirical studies on innovation … using patents to study environmental innovation and diffusion, and discuss its implications for modeling climate change …

We offer new evidence on indigenous innovation and intellectual returnees by estimating the relationship between … and also promote neighboring firm innovation. We find no tendency for export intensive firms to patent more. Controlling …

, droughts and flooding on the innovation of their respective mitigation technologies. Using patent and disaster data, our study … is the first to relate natural disasters to technology innovation, and also presents the first attempt to empirically …