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Adopt or innovate : understanding technological responses to cap-and-trade

Calel, Raphael - 2018

Environmental regulations have consistently been found to spur innovation in "clean" technologies, with one significant exception. Past cap-and-trade programs have encouraged adoption of existing pollution control technologies, but had little effect on innovation. Several explanations have been...

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Leapfrogging : time of entry and firm productivity

Ederington, Josh; Goetz, Georg - 2018

We develop a model in which ex ante identical firms make endogenous entry and technology adoption decisions. We show that this model is capable of matching the stylized facts in which entry and adoption are dispersed over time and that, in many industries, it is the newest firms which are the...

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Innovation and institutions : a multidisciplinary review of the study of innovation systems

Waarden, Frans van (contributor); Casper, Steven (contributor) - 2005

Innovation and Institutions is an extensive elaboration on the make up of systems of innovation. It examines why some countries are more innovative than others, why national styles of innovation differ, and goes on to explore why some countries make radical innovations but fail to successfully...

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The economic theory of invention and innovation

Link, Albert N. (contributor) - 2008

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