investment behaviour is to anticipate the implementation of a climate policy by roughly 10 years. Investing in innovation ahead …. This is especially relevant for China, whose recent and foreseeable trends of investments in innovation are consistent with …

We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation …' innovation activity. However, once the causal effect is isolated by means of instrumental variables, using death of politicians … persistence and the probability of process innovation. This finding is consistent with the view that political stability may …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

Based on recent empirical evidence, this paper includes human capital and knowledge in an integrated assessment model … and it assesses the interplay between innovation, human capital, climate change, and education policies. Results indicate … that climate policy stimulates a dedicated form of energy-knowledge without reducing generic R&D investments. Since …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can … innovation policies be effective in stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations? ii) To what extent can innovation policies … technical progress in the energy sector. We evaluate a range of innovation policies, both as a stand-alone instrument and in …