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innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid integration of intermittent … innovation and discuss the lessons learnt for policy. We then discuss the need for complementary innovation in both physical …
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environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … database of patent applications from a cross-section of countries evidence is provided for the positive effect of flexibility … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and …
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The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...
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Encouraging innovation is an important part of environmental policy. A large literature in environmental economics … examines the links between environmental policy and innovation. This paper reviews recent literature on green innovation. I … different policy instruments on innovation. I include a discussion of the justifications and evidence for technology …
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increase mirroring the social cost of carbon. We find that the induced clean innovation response primarily comes from existing …
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Innovation is part idea generation and part development. We build a model of "innovating-by-doing," whereby ideas come … to practitioners. Successful innovation requires that practitioners' ideas be developed through costly effort. Our model ….S. Medicare program on medical equipment innovation. Our model’s structure allows us to infer the Medicare program's aggregate …
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This article tests the effects of fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards on the direction of innovation, in … for the years 2000-2016. Our results indicate that standards are a very robust driver inducing clean innovation, whereas … negatively impact dirty innovation. …
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discuss what standards are, how the process of standardization works, and how standards are related to induced innovation and … instruments. Finally we discuss how governments might contribute to eco-innovation by selecting, stimulating or creating (inter …
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We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …
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Environmental regulations have consistently been found to spur innovation in "clean" technologies, with one significant … effect on innovation. Several explanations have been offered, including secondary market failures and a lack of polluter …, contrary to past experience, encouraged innovation rather than adoption. I discuss how these contrasting findings can be …
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