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Efficiency Improving Fossil Fuel Technologies for Electricity Generation: Data Selection and Trends

Lanzi, Elisa; Verdolini, Elena; Hašcic, Ivan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

means of mitigating climate change impacts. Relevant patents are identified and used as an indicator of innovation. We find … also find that majority of patents are first filed in OECD countries and only then in non-OECD or BRIC countries …. Conversely, non-OECD and BRIC countries apply for patents that are mostly marketed domestically. This result shows that there is …

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Multiproduct Multinationals and the Quality of Innovation

Bakhtiari, Sasan; Minniti, Antonio; Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This research sheds light on the role of multinational production on the type of innovation performed by firms. We construct matched firm-patent data to measure the scope of innovation, that is the extent to which the output of R&D can be spread across different product lines. We focus on two...

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At Home and Abroad: An Empirical Analysis of Innovation and Diffusion in Energy-Efficient Technologies

Verdolini, Elena; Galeotti, Marzio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

This paper contributes to the induced innovation literature by extending the analysis of supply and demand determinants of innovation in energy-efficient technologies to account for international knowledge flows and spillovers. In the first part of the paper we select a sample of 38 innovating...

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Environmental Policy, Spatial Spillovers and the Emergence of Economic Agglomerations

Xepapadeas, Anastasios; Kyriakopoulou, Efthymia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

We explain the spatial concentration of economic activity, in a model of economic geography, when the cost of environmental policy - which is increasing in the concentration of emissions - and an immobile production factor act as centrifugal forces, while positive knowledge spillovers and...

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ETS and Technological Innovation: A Random Matching Model

Antoci, Angelo; Borghesi, Simone; Sodini, Mauro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

The present paper investigates the functioning of an Emission Trading System (ETS) and its impact on the diffusion of environmental-friendly technological innovation in the presence of firms’ strategic behaviours and sanctions to non-compliant firms. For this purpose, we study an evolutionary...

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Social Capital, R&D and Industrial Districts

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Mancinelli, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

The main idea behind this paper is that social capital is not, as generally suggested by the socio-economic literature, an individual attitude towards something which does not imply privately appropriable economic benefits. Actually, SC might and should be interpreted as a public component of an...

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Key Environmental Innovations

Huber, Joseph - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper is based on empirical research on a taxonomy of technological environmental innovations. It draws on a databank with over 500 examples of new technologies (materials, products, processes and practices) which come with benign environmental effects. The approaches applied to...

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Environmental Options and Technological Innovation: An Evolutionary Game Model

Borghesi, Simone; Antoci, Angelo; Galeotti, Marcello - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

This paper analyses the effects on economic agents' behaviour of an innovative environmental protection mechanism that the Public Administration of a tourist region may adopt to attract visitors while protecting the environment. On the one hand, the Public Administration sells to the tourists an...

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On the Mechanism of International Technology Diffusion for Energy Productivity Growth

Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

International diffusion of advanced environment and energy-related technologies has received much attention in recent environmental economics studies. As a much needed complement to the “black box” complex numerical modelling, this paper contributes to developing a simple, intuitive...

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From Energy-intensive to Innovation-led Growth: On the Transition Dynamics of China’s Economy

Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

Whether China continues its current energy-intensive growth path or adopts a sustainable development prospect has significant implication for energy and climate governance. Building on a Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans growth model incorporating the mechanism of endogenous technological change and its...

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