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The Environment and Directed Technical Change: Comment

Hourcade, Jean-Charles; Pottier, Antonin; Espagne, Etienne - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

This paper discusses the growth model with environmental constraints recently presented in (Acemoglu et al., 2011) which focuses on the redirection of technical change by climate policies with research subsidies and a carbon tax. First, Acemoglu et al.'s model and chosen parameters yield...

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Environmental Innovations, Local Networks and Internationalization

Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montresor, Sandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

This paper investigates the drivers of the environmental innovations (EI) introduced by firms in local production systems (LPS). The role of firm network relationships, agglomeration economies and internationalization strategies is analysed for a sample of 555 firms in the Emilia-Romagna region,...

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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 Relationship between R&D and Productivity: a Treatment Effect Analysis

Medda, Giuseppe; Piga, Claudio; Siegel, Donald - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

This study uses firm level data from two detailed surveys of Italian manufacturing firms to study the relationship between R&D expenditures and productivity growth. The analysis considers the different contributions of various forms of R&D (product, process, internal, external in collaboration...

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ICT, Clusters and Regional Cohesion: A Summary of Theoretical and Empirical Research

Maignan, Carole; Pinelli, Dino; Mattei, Fondazione Eni … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

The question of the spatial impacts of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated the intellectual and policy debate for a long time. At the beginning of the 1990s the rise of the Internet brought a new surge of debate: it was argued that the Internet would free the economy...

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Examining the Factors Influencing Environmental Innovations

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

Technological innovation is a key factor for achieving a better environmental performance of firms and the economy as a …/effluents associated to outputs. Environmental innovation may spur from exogenous driving forces, like policy intervention, and/or from … order to assess what forces are lying behind environmental innovation at the level of the firm, where innovative practices …

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Climate Policy under Technology Spillovers

Golombek, Rolf; Hoel, Michael - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

Technological development is likely to play an important role in curbing growth in greenhouse gas emissions. It is therefore important to incorporate factors influencing technological change in climate policy analyses. This paper studies climate policy when there are technology spillovers...

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Bioprospection: From the Economics of Contracts to Reflexive Governance

Dedeurwaerdere, Tom - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

Bioprospection practices have proliferated as biotechnological and pharmaceutical companies engage in the collection and genetic screening of biological and genetic resources throughout the world. The purpose of this article is to examine the competing proposals for the institutional framing of...

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Linking Environmental and Innovation Policy

Gerlagh, Reyer; Kverndokk, Snorre; Rosendah, Knut Einar - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

This paper addresses the timing and interdependence between innovation and environmental policy in a model of research … and development (R&D). On a first-best path the environmental tax is set at the Pigouvian level, independent of innovation …. However, with finite patent lifetime, optimal innovation policy depends on the stage of the environmental problem. In the …

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Endogenous Technology and Tradable Emission Quotas

Hoel, Michael; Golombek, Rolf - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

We study an international climate agreement that assigns emission quotas to each participating country. Unlike the simplest models in the literature, we assume that abatement costs are affected by R&D activities undertaken in all firms in all countries, i.e. abatement technologies are...

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