energy R&D expenditures. Technological innovation is measured using patent counts for specific technologies related to energy … likelihood to patent. Governmental energy R&D support has a small positive significant effect on patenting activities. …

developing countries (South) through its impact on innovation, market structure and technology transfer. In a North-South trade … environment, the South sets its IPR policy strategically to manipulate multinationals’ decisions on innovation and location. Firms … stimulates innovation by pushing multinationals to deter entry in high-technology sectors. …

The study of innovation and technological change is an increasing field of economic enquire because innovation can be … considered a major engine of growth. This paper is concerned with the determinants of innovation and technological change …

of the receiving country. We test the empirical implications of our model using patent data in renewable and fossil … efficient power technologies for 13 top innovating countries and 40 patenting authorities. We improve on previous contributions … Moment estimator. We show that knowledge transfer through patent duplication increases with the level of IPR protection, but …

innovation or in patenting activities abroad. …With the rise of the knowledge economy, delivering sound innovation policies requires a thorough understanding of how … Global Innovation Networks (GINs), to shed light on how the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) influences …

We study the impact of environmental regulations on the patent activities for wind turbines between 1980 and 2008. We … on innovation activities. In addition, we find that price-based policy instruments are more effective in fostering …

We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …

environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on … performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant …