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Environmental Regulations, Market Structure and Technological Progress in Renewable Energy Technology - A Panel Data Study on Wind Turbines
Rübbelke, Dirk T. G.; Weiss, Pia - 2014
We study the impact of environmental regulations on the patent activities for wind turbines between 1980 and 2008. We explicitly control for energy market liberalisation and take a potential interaction between liberalisation and policy instruments into account. We find a strong and highly...
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Improving the Energy-Efficiency of Buildings : The Impact of Environmental Policy on Technological Innovation
Noailly, Joëlle - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of alternative environmental policy instruments on technological innovations aiming to improve energy-efficiency in buildings. The empirical analysis focuses on three main types of policy instruments, namely regulatory energy standards in buildings codes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014190603
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Cross-Border Intellectual Property Rights : Contract Enforcement and Absorptive Capacity
Naghavi, Alireza; Tsai, Yingyi - 2013
This paper studies cross-border intellectual property rights (IPR) as a North-South contract using a Nash bargaining … level of IPR protection relates positively to absorptive capacity. This provides a rationale for the longer time … Representative “Special 301” report, which flags countries that deny adequate IPR protection as “priority watch list”. While disputes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014170650
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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora
Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - 2011
In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although emigration from the South may directly result in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014178288
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What Drives the International Transfer of Climate Change Mitigation Technologies? Empirical Evidence from Patent Data
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Glachant, Matthieu; … - 2012
Using patent data from 66 countries for the period 1990–2003, we characterize the factors which promote or hinder the international diffusion of climate-friendly technologies on a global scale. Regression results show that technology-specific capabilities of the recipient countries are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197616
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Intellectual Property Rights and Biotechnology : How to Improve the Present Patent System
Musu, Ignazio - 2013
The paper discusses two types of problems related to assigning or denying intellectual property rights to agro-biotechnological innovations in the relation between developed and developing countries. First, protecting property rights on innovations creates incentives towards further research and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064207
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Clean and Dirty International Technology Diffusion
Bosetti, Valentina; Verdolini, Elena - 2014
This paper investigates the role of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection and Environmental Policies (EPs) on … clean (renewable) and dirty (fossil-based) technology diffusion from top-innovators. IPR protection and EPs are extensively … debated policy tools, as IPR protection addresses knowledge market failure, while EPs respond to pressing local and global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014038929
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Joint Venture Breakup and the Exploration-Exploitation Trade-off
Soubeyran, Antoine - 2010
This paper explores the effect of a potential joint-venture breakup on the level of technology transfer in a set-up with exploration-exploitation trade-offs in the presence of time compression costs. We consider a joint-venture relationship between a technologically advanced multinational firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150040
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Directed Technical Change and Climate Policy
Otto, Vincent M. - 2006
This paper studies the cost effectiveness of climate policy if there are technology externalities. For this purpose, we develop a forward-looking CGE model that captures empirical links between CO2 emissions associated with energy use, directed technical change and the economy. We find the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734148
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Innovation and Institutional Ownership
Aghion, Philippe - 2014
We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite-weighted patents). To explore the mechanism through which this link arises, we build a model that nests the lazy-manager hypothesis with career-concerns, where institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069342