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Although economists cite potential gains from induced innovation as an advantage of using market-based mechanisms to … control. I find that requiring plants constructed before 1990 to install scrubbers created incentives for innovation that …
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technology, opportunity costs of research limit the role induced innovation can play. Moreover, since the backstop technology …
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Despite growing empirical evidence of the link between environmental policy and innovation, most economic models of … innovation in the energy sector. Ignoring induced technological change overstates the welfare costs of an optimal carbon tax …, as the effect of induced innovation on emissions and mean global temperature is small. Sensitivity analysis shows that …
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Global climate change and other environmental challenges require the development of new energy technologies with lower emissions. In the near-term, R&D investments, either by government or the private sector, can bring down the costs of these lower emission technologies. However, the results of...
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existing knowledge have strongly significant positive effects on innovation. Furthermore, I show that omitting the quality of …
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This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation … return of 9.7%, followed by 6% to 7% on organizational innovation and a modest 1.4% to 1.8% on R&D in services and …
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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 …
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After presenting the history, the evolution and the content of innovation surveys, we discuss the characteristics of … have been made of these data: the construction of scoreboards for monitoring innovation and the scholarly analysis of … various issue related to innovation. In particular we review the questions examined and the results obtained regarding the …
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literature on environmental innovation and diffusion, with a focus on studies relevant to the development of clean energy …
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This paper examines the effect of environmental policies on technological innovation in the specific case of renewable …
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