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The Diffusion and Adoption of Advanced Technologies in Canada: An Overview of the Issues

Gafni, Elad - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2005

tradeoffs between supporting R&D and supporting diffusion in the presence of limited public funds to promote innovation merit …

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Indicators of Innovation in Canadian Natural Resource Industries

Sharpe, Andrew; Guibaud, Olivier - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2005

This report develops a set of indicators of innovation in a number of the natural resource industries in Canada. It … then uses these indicators to assess trends in innovation over time in these industries. The innovative performance of … industries in other countries. The report finds that on most innovation indicators, Canadian natural resource industries perform …

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The Canada-Atlantic Canada Manufacturing Productivity Gap: A Detailed Analysis

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003

production. Of these, innovation is found to be the most important. Since research and development activity has been historically …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481843

Light Duty Vehicle Transportation and Global Climate Policy: The Importance of Electric Drive Vehicles

Bosetti, Valentina; Longden, Thomas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

between innovation in the transportation sector and the energy sector. By modelling the demand for LDVs, the use of fuels, and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010539703

Light Duty Vehicle Transportation and Global Climate Policy: The Importance of Electric Drive Vehicles

Bosetti, Valentina; Longden, Thomas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

between innovation in the transportation sector and the energy sector. By modelling the demand for LDVs, the use of fuels, and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541207

Deviations in Kilometres Travelled: The Impact of Different Mobility Futures on Energy Use and Climate

Longden, Thomas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

The importance of a focus on mobility and the kilometres travelled using light duty vehicles is reflected in the persistence of strong demand for personal mobility and emissions that tend to be linked with population and economic growth. Simulation results using the WITCH model show that changes...

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Deviation Among Technology Reviews: An Informative Enrichment of Technology Evolution Theory for Marketing

Stremersch, Stefan; Sood, Sood, A. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

Understanding technological change is of critical importance to marketers, as it bears new markets, new brands, new customers, and new market leaders. This paper examines the deviation among reviews of a technology’s performance and its consequences for inferences on technology evolution...

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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003

This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...

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Policy Instruments and Incentives for Environmental R&D:A Market-Driven Approach

Albrecht, Johan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999

Environmental policy instruments have an impact on the incentives to invest in environmental R&D and this link should deserve careful consideration when introducing new instruments. Some authors argue that environmental taxes and tradable permits have rather comparable impacts on environmental...

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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...

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