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We construct a new dataset of inequality in educational attainment by age and sex at the global level. The comparison of education inequality measures across age groups allows us to assess the effect of inter-generational education attainment trends on economic growth. Our results indicate that...
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In this contribution we describe how green policies should be designed to activate private innovation forces for … private green innovation machine. We try to assess how strong which types of government interventions have and can be to power … the green innovation machine. An important insight from the economic analysis of the effectiveness of the public …
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This short paper considers all possible stakeholders in different stages of a sustainability transition and matches their behavioral features and diversity to policies. This will involve an assessment of potential or expected responses of stakeholders to a range of policy instruments. Following...
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The European Union has implemented demand push and technology pull policies to foster innovation on the energy and … rarely treats product and process innovation separately and product quality is, in the best case, exogenous. We develop a … dynamic multi-sector CGE model that distinguishes between R&D-based process innovation for all firms, endogenous product …
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spin-offs. Patenting and licensing is only two of a number of pathways for the transfer of knowledge from universities to … to transfer knowledge from the university to industry, particularly when the knowledge to be transferred is hard to … codify and is embodied in human capital as is the case for science-based knowledge. Although this is an area of great …
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transition. With the perspective of our contribution to WWWforEurope, we concentrate especially on social welfare, innovation …
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relevant for socio-ecological transition. Hereby the paper focuses on the concepts of sustainability, growth, innovation … innovation, as a central driver for growth. Within the context of a socio-ecological transition based on sustainable growth …, ecological and social innovation gain in importance vis-à-vis purely profit-oriented innovation. Long-term growth is based on …
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This study analyses the diffusion of renewable energy (RE) technologies. It analyses the transition dynamics as the sector broadens its energy mix and changes its capital stock. This shift is found to be desirable from an environmental, geopolitical and economic perspective. Yet, it greatly...
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failures like lock-in, unpredictability and surprise in innovation systems, and network interaction between agents have … social interactions, and on behavioral foundations of learning and innovation." …
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Countries (CEECs) by elucidating the issues such as; the connection between competitiveness and industrial policy, innovation … technological development. The third step was an assessment of CEECs innovation and R&D policies, and their linkages with …
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