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 …

literature on environmental innovation and diffusion, with a focus on studies relevant to the development of clean energy …

As an empirical example of this externality, we analyze the innovation induced by the obesity epidemic. Obesity is … associated with an increase in the incidence of many diseases. The induced innovation hypothesis is that an increase in the … incidence of a disease will increase technological innovation specific to that disease. The empirical economics literature has …

opportunities. The paper also provides new evidence on induced pharmaceutical innovation. In both cases we use the change in the … demographic structure of the market (measured by age structure and obesity prevalence) to test the induced innovation hypothesis … pharmaceutical innovation responds to aging- and obesity-induced changes in potential market size …

This paper examines the effect of environmental policies on technological innovation in the specific case of renewable …

While many studies have looked at innovation and adoption of technologies separately, the two processes are linked …

Using patent data from the United States, Japan, and Germany, this paper examines both the innovation and diffusion of … environmental regulations. Moreover, any technology transfer that occurs appears to be indirect. Domestic innovation occurs even for …

links energy-related R&D to changes in the price of carbon. Drawing on my experiences from empirical studies on innovation … using patents to study environmental innovation and diffusion, and discuss its implications for modeling climate change …

existing knowledge have strongly significant positive effects on innovation. Furthermore, I show that omitting the quality of …