of low-carbon energy innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid … document recent trends in energy innovation and discuss the lessons learnt for policy. We then discuss the potential role for … complementary innovation in both physical capital--using smart grids as an example of how policy can help--and human capital, where …

Commercializing knowledge involves transfer from discovering scientists to those who will develop it commercially. New … opportunities if high. Hence new knowledge remains naturally excludable and appropriable. Team production allows more knowledge … capture of tacit, complex discoveries by firm scientists. A robust indicator of a firm's tacit knowledge capture (and strong …

The rate of regional growth of new knowledge in the field of nanotechnology, as measured by counts of articles and … stocks of recorded knowledge in all scientific fields, and the extent to which tacit knowledge in all fields flows between … patenting. The data provide further support for the cumulative advantage model of knowledge production, and for ongoing efforts …

externalities but also by innovation market failures. This paper maps the economics literature on innovation market failures and …

existing knowledge have strongly significant positive effects on innovation. Furthermore, I show that omitting the quality of … patent citations to construct a measure of the usefulness of the existing base of scientific knowledge, I consider the effect … knowledge adversely affects the estimation results …

relating to patenting, robust conclusions regarding the empirical consequences for technological innovation of changes in …

effect on the performance of domestic firms relative to their foreign competitors, by stimulating domestic innovation. We … examine the stylized facts regarding environmental expenditures and innovation in a panel of manufacturing industries. We find …

development of new energy technologies (Popp, 2017). Energy innovation tends to consist of a series of partially overlapping … processes involving: (1) the production of scientific and technological knowledge, (2) the translation of that knowledge into …--that is, the translation of scientific knowledge into working prototypes. Our results show that "clean" energy technologies …

The 'quality' of novel technological innovations is extremely variable, and the ability to measure innovation quality … is essential to sensible, evidence-based policy. Patents, an often vital precursor to a commercialised innovation, share …

Historically, innovation in the energy sector proceeded slowly and entrepreneurial start-up firms played a relatively …, integrating intermittent resources creates additional grid management challenges, requiring further innovation. This chapter … documents the evolving roles of innovation and entrepreneurship in the energy sector. First, we provide an overview of the …