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investment and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable development holds important implications for both national and … and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable growth path. We show that if R&D technological innovation is … environmental quality improves at a rate of 2.5%. In contrast, if R&D technological innovation is not harnessed as a new growth …
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contributes to an economic exposition of China's potential transition from an energy-intensive to an innovation-led growth path … capital investment and incentives of capital stock accumulation rather than R&D-related innovation. Accumulation of energy …-consuming capital stock along this non-innovation-led growth path thus leads to an intensive use of fossil energy - an energy …
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A major concern regarding innovation in clean technologies in the EU is that the fragmentation of its innovation system … hindering the movement towards the technological frontier. This paper evaluates the fragmentation of the EU innovation system in … integration of EU countries' innovation efforts and to assess how citation patterns changed over time. We show that EU RES …
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Cap-and-trade systems have emerged as the preferred national and regional instrument for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases throughout the industrialized world, and the Clean Development Mechanism - an international emission-reduction-credit system - has developed a substantial constituency,...
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This paper investigates the drivers of the environmental innovations (EI) introduced by firms in local production systems (LPS). The role of firm network relationships, agglomeration economies and internationalization strategies is analysed for a sample of 555 firms in the Emilia-Romagna region,...
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Technological innovation is a key factor for achieving a better environmental performance of firms and the economy as a …/effluents associated to outputs. Environmental innovation may spur from exogenous driving forces, like policy intervention, and/or from … order to assess what forces are lying behind environmental innovation at the level of the firm, where innovative practices …
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China's unbundling reform in 2002 aimed to introduce competitiveness into the power industry, especially the generation sector, to improve its operational efficiency. Meanwhile, great concern about a range of environmental problems and global climate change increasingly calls for saving energy...
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efficiency-improving vertical innovation model where energy technological progress is specified as an improvement in primary … energy use efficiency. Then a variety-expanding horizontal innovation model is presented where energy technological progress … technology tend to diverge due to cross-country differences in indigenous innovation efficiencies and knowledge absorptive …
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Climate regulations tend to target energy intensive sectors whose products are widely used in industrial production as intermediate inputs, such as electricity, and the carbon abatement may be partially offset by intermediate input-led leakage. This paper aims to examine the impact of...
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This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries. The literature reviewed is not exhausted, but it is sufficient to provide a balanced view of both academics and policy circles....
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