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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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Key success drivers in public research grants : funding the seeds of radical innovation in academia?
Banal-Estañol, Albert; Macho-Stadler, Inés; … - 2016
innovation, we characterize such "radical teams" as those formed by eclectic and non-usual collaborators, and those that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451136
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Dynamic mergers effects on R&D investments and drug development across research phases in the pharmaceutical industry
Siebert, Ralph; Tian, Zhili - 2020
Pharmaceutical firms spend increasing amounts in mergers and acquisitions (M&As), which raises the question of whether sufficient investment is left after mergers to further develop firms' internal drug development capability. We evaluate the effects of M&As on firms' post-merger R&D...
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ICT, collaboration, and science-based innovation : evidence from BITNET
Wernsdorf, Kathrin; Nagler, Markus; Watzinger, Martin - 2020
Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304309
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Science vs. profit in research : lessons from the human genome project
Carraro, Carlo; Pomè, Alessandra; Siniscalco, Domenico - 2001
This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...
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Technological sovereignty as ability, not autarky
March, Christoph; Schieferdecker, Ina - 2021
globalization. We develop a competence-based definition of technological sovereignty, which puts innovation policy at the core of … cooperation and trade. Two case studies illustrate how innovation policy might be used to achieve technological sovereignty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012546886
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Policy-induced innovation in clean technologies : evidence from the car market
Rozendaal, Rik L.; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 2021
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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Mind the knowledge gap! : the origins of declining business dynamism in a macro agent-based model
Delli Gatti, Domenico; Terranova, Roberta; Turco, Enrico - 2023
In this paper we replicate most of the stylized facts characterizing the decline in business dynamism in the USA highlighted by Akcigit and Ates (2021) and provide an explanation of their emergence by means of a macroeconomic agent-based model populated by two types of firms: innovators who...
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The long-term effect of Western customs institution on firm innovation in China
Jin, Gan; Schulze, Günther G. - 2024
Can historical institutions affect today's firm innovation? We analyze a historical experiment in 1902, when the … industrial firms in China, we show that firms in locations historically affected by the CMC rules exhibit higher innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014478735
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Environmental policy design and the fragmentation of international markets for innovation
Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - 2009
environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and … workplace safety. -- environmental policy ; market fragmentation ; innovation : technology transfer …
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