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Environmental policy and innovation : a decade of research
Popp, David - 2019
of three promising areas for new research on environmental innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011983674
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Science vs. profit in research : lessons from the human genome project
Carraro, Carlo; Pomè, Alessandra; Siniscalco, Domenico - 2001
research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities … some features of an optimal research policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399680
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Fiscal and regulatory instruments for clean technology development in the European Union
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Popp, David - 2015
This policy note investigates whether the current level of public support to environment-friendly technologies is sufficient to allow European countries to respond to the multiple challenges posed by climate change and other environmental concerns. We first lay out the justifications for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519926
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Innovation and spillovers : evidence from European regions
Bottazzi, Laura; Peri, Giovanni - 2000
The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed recently by the theoretical and empirical literature. Moreover the intensity of knowledge externalities in generating innovation, is the key parameter in determining sustained growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781621
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Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (scientific) giants? : evidence from chemistry
Qiu, Shumin; Steinwender, Claudia; Azoulay, Pierre - 2023
by the number of publications originating from Chinese research institutions. China's rise in science has the potential … it. In this manuscript, we study how fertile Chinese research is, as measured by citations. Using publication and … research, Chinese PIs' articles receive 28% fewer citations from US researchers. Our results imply that US researchers do not …
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Undergraduate gender diversity and the direction of scientific research
Truffa, Francesca; Wong, Ashley - 2024
Can diversity lead to greater research focus on populations underrepresented in science? Between 1960 and 1990, 76 all … coeducation led to a 44% increase in gender-related research publications. This increase is driven by research focused on female … gender topics, much of the increase comes from male incumbent researchers shifting their research focus toward gender …
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Innovation, trade, and finance
Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2011
This paper proposes a model where heterogeneous firms choose whether to undertake R&D or not. Innovative firms are more productive, have larger investment opportunities and lower own funds for necessary tangible continuation investments than non-innovating firms. As a result, they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009240877
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Technological sovereignty as ability, not autarky
March, Christoph; Schieferdecker, Ina - 2021
Aspirations towards technological sovereignty increasingly pervade the political debate. Yet, an ambiguous definition leaves the exact goal of those aspirations and the policies to fulfill them unclear. This leaves room for partly particularly negative interpretations, such as equating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012546886
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Incentives for environmental R&D
Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael - 2011
Since governments can influence the demand for a new abatement technology through their environmental policy, they may be able to expropriate innovations in new abatement technology ex post. This suggests that incentives for environmental R&D may be lower than the incentives for market goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130253
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Industrial policy and the great divergence
Juhász, Réka; Steinwender, Claudia - 2023
We discuss recent work evaluating the role of the government in shaping the economy during the long 19th century, a practice we refer to as industrial policy. We show that states deployed a vast variety of different policies aimed at, primarily, but not exclusively, fostering industrialization....
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