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The paper examines the determinants that influence the environmental innovation behaviour of companies in Germany in a multivariate context by using data from the Mannheimer Innovations Panel 1993, which was part of the Community Innovation Survey. The objective is to analyse the general...
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regimes associated with different predictions about life expectancy evolution, educational investment dynamics, and technology …
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basically depends on material and relational goods, we show that the best-case scenarios hold when technology and social capital … technology and social interaction balance one another in fostering the growth of both the social and the private sector of the … economy. Along such tracks, technology may play a crucial role in supporting a “socially sustainable” economic growth. …
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to developing a simple, intuitive analytical framework to unveil the mechanism of international technology diffusion for … mechanism of energy technology diffusion. This exogenous model is then extended to a Romer-type endogenous one where the R …&D-induced expansion of energy technology varieties is used to represent the deep structure of technology diffusion. We show that the …
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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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We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite-weighted patents). To explore the mechanism through which this link arises, we build a model that nests the lazy-manager hypothesis with career-concerns, where institutional...
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the fundamental mechanism of international technology diffusion for energy technological growth. We first develop an … is described as an expansion of energy technology variety. We show that in both models there is a cross …-country convergence in the growth rate of energy technology in a long-run balanced growth path, but the absolute levels of energy …
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The study of innovation and technological change is an increasing field of economic enquire because innovation can be considered a major engine of growth. This paper is concerned with the determinants of innovation and technological change. Different theoretical approaches present in the...
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This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of scientific publications, in a panel of 20 European countries. Skilled migrants positively contribute to the knowledge formation in host countries as they add to the pool of skills in...
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firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … depends on parameters related to technology, parents’ altruism and the diffusion of firm property. When child labor exists, it …We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting …
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