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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Energy Sector

Popp, David - 2020

Historically, innovation in the energy sector proceeded slowly and entrepreneurial start-up firms played a relatively …, integrating intermittent resources creates additional grid management challenges, requiring further innovation. This chapter … documents the evolving roles of innovation and entrepreneurship in the energy sector. First, we provide an overview of the …

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Exploring Links Between Innovation and Diffusion : Adoption of NOx Control Technologies at U.S. Coal-Fired Power Plants

Popp, David - 2006

While many studies have looked at innovation and adoption of technologies separately, the two processes are linked …

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International Innovation and Diffusion of Air Pollution Control Technologies : The Effects of NOX and SO2 Regulation in the US, Japan, and Germany

Popp, David - 2004

Using patent data from the United States, Japan, and Germany, this paper examines both the innovation and diffusion of … environmental regulations. Moreover, any technology transfer that occurs appears to be indirect. Domestic innovation occurs even for …

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Health, height, nutrition, and mortality : evidence on the "Antebellum Puzzle" from union army recruits in the middle of the nineteenth century

Haines, Michael R. (contributor) - 1998 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Childhood Mortality & Nutritional Status as Indicators of Standard of Living : Evidence from World War I Recruits in the United States

Haines, Michael R. - 2000

This paper examines variations in stature and the Body Mass Index (BMI) across space for the United States in 1917/18, using published data on the measurement of approximately 890,000 recruits for the American Army for World War I. It also connects those anthropometric measurements with an index...

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The role of Venture Capital and Governments in Clean Energy : Lessons from the First Cleantech Bubble

Heuvel, Matthias van den; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

greater impact on clean energy innovation than investing in startups that will then struggle through the "valley of death …

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Early Fertility Decline in the United States : Tests of Alternative Hypotheses using New Complete-Count Census Microdata and Enhanced County-Level Data

Haines, Michael R. - 2020

The U.S. fertility transition in the nineteenth century is unusual. Not only did it start from a very high fertility level and very early in the nation's development, but it also took place long before the nation's mortality transition, industrialization, and urbanization. This paper assembles...

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Inequality and Infant and Childhood Mortality in the United States in the Twentieth Century

Haines, Michael R. - 2010

This paper deals with the issue of using infant and childhood mortality as an indicator of inequality. The case is that of the United States in the 20th century. Using microdata from the 1900 and 1910 Integrated Public Use Microsamples (IPUMS), published data from the Birth Registration Area in...

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Railroads and the Rise of the Factory : Evidence for the United States, 1850-70

Atack, Jeremy - 2008

Over the course of the nineteenth century manufacturing in the United States shifted from artisan shop to factory production. At the same time United States experienced a "transportation revolution", a key component of which was the building of extensive railroad network. Using a newly created...

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The Puzzle of the Antebellum Fertility Decline in the United States : New Evidence and Reconsideration

Haines, Michael R. - 2006

All nations that can be characterized as developed have undergone the demographic transition from high to low levels of fertility and mortality. Most presently developed nations began their fertility transitions in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries. The United States was an...

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