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Two-echelon freight transport optimisation: unifying concepts via a systematic review
Gonzalez-Feliu, Jesus - HAL - 2011
Multi-echelon distribution schemes are one of the most common strategies adopted by the transport companies in an aim of cost reduction, but their identification in scientific literature is not always easy due to a lack of unification. This paper presents the main concepts of two-echelon...
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Technological vs ecological switch and the environmental Kuznets curve
Boucekkine, Raouf; Pommeret, Aude; Prieur, Fabien - HAL - 2011
We consider an optimal technology adoption AK model in line with Boucekkine Krawczyk and Vallée (2011): an economy, caring about consumption and pollution as well, starts with a given technological regime and may decide to switch at any moment to a cleaner technology at a given permanent or...
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How does the design of international environmental agreements affect investment in environmentally friendly technologies ?
Bayramoglu, Basak - HAL - 2007
This paper studies the link between the design of international environmental agreements and the incentives for the private sector to invest in cleaner technologies. More specifically, it compares the performance, in the Paretoo sense, of two types of agreement : an agreement on a uniform...
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Trade, technology adoption and wage inequalities: theory and evidence
Bas, Maria - HAL - 2008
This paper develops a trade model with heterogeneous firms introducing a fixed technology cost and different types of skilled labor. The main contribution is to explain the effects of trade integration on the extensive margin of technology adoption and its impact on wage inequalities. The...
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Household Adoption of Water-Efficient Equipment : The Role of Socio-economic Factors, Environmental Attitudes and Policy
Millock, Katrin; Nauges, Céline - HAL - 2010
Using survey data of around 10,000 households from 10 OECD countries, we identify the driving factors of household adoption of water-efficient equipment by estimating Probit models of a household's probability to invest in such equipment. The results indicate that environmental attitudes and...
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Determinants of diffusion and adoption of improved technology for rice parboiling in Benin
Dandedjrohoun, Lidia; Diagne, Aliou; Biaou, Gauthier; … - HAL - 2012
The widespread use of traditional rice-parboiling methods in Benin leads to poor quality of final rice. To address this problem, the national agricultural research institute of Benin and Africa Rice Center have developed improved rice parboiling technology. An educational video developed by...
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Subsidising network technology adoption the case of publishers and E-readers
Matttia De' Grassi Di Pianura - HAL - 2012
To market a new network technology effectively, manufacturers need to understand the structure and size of network effects associated with the product. If consumers' surplus from adoption depends positively on the number of interconnections in the network, early adopters may need to be...
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The persistence of firms' knowledge base: a quantile approach to Italian data
Colombelli, Alessandra; Quatraro, Francesco - HAL - 2014
The paper investigates the patterns of persistence of innovation and of the properties of firms' knowledge base (KB …
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Contre les territoires jetables. Première approche critique des systèmes d'identification des territoires.
Gwiazdzinski, Luc - HAL - 2013
"Vertige" est le mot qui vient immédiatement à l'esprit quand nous contemplons le tourbillon des logos et marques territoriales qui s'étalent désormais sous nos yeux. " Inquiétude " c'est le sentiment que l'on peut ressentir à la vue des bricolages visuels et des simplifications qui...
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How to improve Kline and Rosenberg's chain-linked model of innovation: building blocks and diagram-based languages
Micaëlli, Jean-Pierre; Forest, Joelle; Coatanéa, Eric; … - HAL - 2014
The "hierarchical and linear model of innovation" (HLMI) is often used to describe how innovations are produced. HLMI … conceiving innovation systems as associations of building blocks and using contemporary engineering diagram-based languages to … display them. Nevertheless, this improvement does not challenge the dynamic features of innovation systems …
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