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-frame provided to least developed countries in Article 66 of TRIPS to implement its provisions. In addition, monitoring is only …
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This paper looks at the interplay between human capital and innovation in the presence of climate and educational … moderate, short-term consumption loss. Human capital is complement to all forms of innovation and an educational policy … stimulates both energy and general purpose innovation. This result has important policy implications considering the growing …
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This paper investigates the role of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection and Environmental Policies (EPs) on clean (renewable) and dirty (fossil-based) technology diffusion from top-innovators. IPR protection and EPs are extensively debated policy tools, as IPR protection addresses...
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We present a theory of spatial development. A continuum of locations in a geographic area choose each period how much to innovate (if at all) in manufacturing and services. Locations can trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across locations. The result is an...
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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 … the supply and demand determinants of innovation accounting for international knowledge spillovers. Our results confirm …
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We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …
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environmental-friendly technological innovation in the presence of firms’ strategic behaviours and sanctions to non-compliant firms …
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Which kind of reaction can a nation or group of nations expect when leading by example in climate policy? This literature survey describes possible positive reaction mechanisms from different fields of economics, some of which have scarcely been linked to climate economics previously. One effect...
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empirical assessment of how online networking affects two economically relevant aspects of social capital, i.e. trust and … participation in SNSs such as Facebook and Twitter has a positive effect on face-to-face interactions. However, social trust … of trust …
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We develop a theoretical model of directed technical change in which clean (zero emissions) and dirty (emissions-intensive) technologies are embodied in long-lived capital. We show how obsolescence costs generated by technological embodiment create inertia in a transition to clean growth....
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