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Access to Modern Energy: a Review of Barriers, Drivers and Impacts
Bonan, Jacopo; Pareglio, Stefano; Tavoni, Massimo - 2016
Universal access to modern energy services, in terms of access to electricity and to modern cooking facilities, has been recognized as a fundamental challenge for development. Despite strong praise for action and the deployment of large-scale electrification programs and improved cookstove (ICS)...
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Access to Modern Energy: a Review of Impact Evaluations
Bonan, Jacopo; Pareglio, Stefano; Tavoni, Massimo - 2014
Universal access to modern energy services, in terms of access to electricity and to modern cooking facilities, has been recognized as fundamental challenge for development and is likely to be included in the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals. Despite a strong praise for action and several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491239
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Ideas and innovation in East Asia
Brahmbhatt, Milan (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003623133
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Innovation and development around the world, 1960 - 2000
Lederman, Daniel; Saenz, Laura - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003230859
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Deviations in kilometres travelled: The impact of different mobility futures on energy use and climate policy
Longden, Thomas - 2012
The importance of a focus on mobility and the kilometres travelled using light duty vehicles is reflected in the persistence of strong demand for personal mobility and emissions that tend to be linked with population and economic growth. Simulation results using the WITCH model show that changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294344
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Light duty vehicle transportation and global climate policy: The importance of electric drive vehicles
Bosetti, Valentina; Longden, Thomas - 2012
between innovation in the transportation sector and the energy sector. By modelling the demand for LDVs, the use of fuels, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282962
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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change: Evidence from the auto industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294270
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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - 2007
ouput innovation, for small and medium enterprises (SME) playing in a local economic system. Given the intangible nature of … many techno organisational innovation and networking strategies, original recent survey data for manufacturing and services … and process/product output innovation. R&D is a main driver of innovation and productivity, even without networking. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312284
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Unbundling technology adoption and tfp at the firm level: Do intangibles matter?
Battisti, Michele; Belloc, Filippo; Del Gatto, Massimo - 2012
We use a panel of European firms to investigate the relationship between intangible assets and productivity. We disentangle between tfp and technology adoption, while available studies so far have considered only a notion of productivity conflating the two effects. To this aim, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294338
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The effects of privatization on R&D investments and patent productivity
Munari, Federico; Sobrero, Maurizio - 2002
Over the last two decades privatization programs in different countries radically reduced the role of the State as a key player in the economic arena. We use agency theory to discuss the theoretical relationship between changes in the firm's principal-agent structure following privatization, and...
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