, its risk profile, industry networks and dominant practices. Innovation and integration of digital technology are both … important because of their potential to promote development by spurring innovation, improving efficiency and increasing … inclusion. This paper explores how these mechanisms - innovation, inclusion and efficiency - have been integral to microfinance …

-2008 through analyses of the new wave of Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data that covered for the first time environmental … innovation adoptions. We investigate whether the first phase of EU ETS has exerted some effects on environmental innovations by … instead to be weak: it drives innovation if we compare ETS and non ETS firms, but the stringency itself does not matter, due …

environmental-friendly technological innovation in the presence of firms' strategic behaviours and sanctions to non-compliant firms …-free technologies. -- Emissions Trading ; Technological Innovation ; Random Matching ; Evolutionary Game ; Penalty System ; Strategic …

significantly inducing innovation within municipal boundaries. Regarding economic performances, firms' productivity is positively …