environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on … performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant …

on innovation activities. In addition, we find that price-based policy instruments are more effective in fostering …

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 …

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 explains its slow pace of … pecuniary externality on the demand side, both dampening the incentive of innovation. On the basis of our economic analysis, we …

innovations, however, suffer from so-called "double externalities", because apart from innovation spillovers they also improve the … quality of public environmental goods, which can be used without cost by free riders. Those innovation spillovers can be …

-country differences in the efficiency of foreign technology absorption and indigenous innovation lead to cross-country divergence in the … undertaking indigenous innovation tends to gain a higher level of energy productivity. …

contributes to an economic exposition of China’s potential transition from an energy-intensive to an innovation-led growth path … capital investment and incentives of capital stock accumulation rather than R&D-related innovation. Accumulation of energy …-consuming capital stock along this non-innovation-led growth path thus leads to an intensive use of fossil energy - an energy …

energy R&D expenditures. Technological innovation is measured using patent counts for specific technologies related to energy …