technologies like information technology (IT), but the reasons why energy sector is perplexed by slow innovation remain unexplained … the mechanism that underlies the slow progress of energy technological innovation. We show that in decentralized market …

theoretically examine ChinaÕs potential transition from its energy-intensive status quo to an innovation-oriented growth prospect …. We develop an economic growth model that incorporates the endogenous mechanism of technological innovation and its … physical capital rather than R&D-related innovation. Accumulation of the energy-consuming capital thus leads to an intensive …

efficiency-improving vertical innovation model where energy technological progress is specified as an improvement in primary … energy use efficiency. Then a variety-expanding horizontal innovation model is presented where energy technological progress … technology tend to diverge due to cross-country differences in indigenous innovation efficiencies and knowledge absorptive …

biodiversity loss and nitrogen pollution. …

As a useful complement to numerous innovation policy studies from a normative perspective, this paper provides a … positive framework to analyze the basic economic mechanism of energy technological innovation and explain its slow pace of … pecuniary externality on the demand side, both dampening the incentive of innovation. On the basis of our economic analysis, we …

energy innovation. Taking an evolutionary economics perspective this paper makes the case as to why price mechanisms alone …