The window of opportunity for effective climate change mitigation is closing. Hence, it is decisive to unterstand how to accelerate the diffusion of climate friendly technologies. Path dependence of technological change is an explanation for sluggish diffusion even if a technology is superior in...

Technological know-how is necessary to make effectively use of new machinery and capital goods. Firms and employees accumulate technology-specific knowledge when working with specific machinery. Radical innovation differs by technology type and pre-existing knowledge may be imperfectly...

Purpose of this paper is the self-contained description of the green technology extension of the macroeconomic agent-based model Eurace@unibi. The original model is extended in mainly five dimensions: (1) There are two types of production technology, i.e. a green and a conventional. Technology...