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Intellectual Property Rights and South-North Formation of Global Innovation Networks

Comune, Maria; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2014

Southern firms in global innovation networks. A complementary exercise uses global bilateral patent data to investigate the … stimulate Southern innovation …

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Optimal Energy Investment and R&D Strategies to Stabilise Greenhouse Gas Atmospheric Concentrations

Bosetti, Valentina - 2014

The stabilisation of GHG atmospheric concentrations at levels expected to prevent dangerous climate change has become an important, global, long-term objective. It is therefore crucial to identify a cost-effective way to achieve this objective. In this paper we use WITCH, a hybrid...

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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry

Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hémous, David - 2013

innovation distinguishing between 'dirty' (internal combustion engine) and 'clean' (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

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At Home and Abroad : An Empirical Analysis of Innovation and Diffusion in Energy-Efficient Technologies

Verdolini, Elena - 2012

This paper contributes to the induced innovation literature by extending the analysis of supply and demand determinants … of innovation in energy-efficient technologies to account for international knowledge flows and spillovers. In the first … the supply and demand determinants of innovation accounting for international knowledge spillovers. Our results confirm …

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Environmental Innovations, Local Networks and Internationalization

Cainelli, Giulio - 2014

This paper investigates the drivers of the environmental innovations (EI) introduced by firms in local production systems (LPS). The role of firm network relationships, agglomeration economies and internationalization strategies is analysed for a sample of 555 firms in the Emilia-Romagna region,...

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Trade and Geography in the Economic Origins of Islam : Theory and Evidence

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2010

This research examines the economic origins of Islam and uncovers two empirical regularities. First, Muslim countries, virtual countries and ethnic groups, exhibit highly unequal regional agricultural endowments. Second, Muslim adherence is systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade...

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