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Are Regional Systems Greening the Economy? The Role of Environmental Innovations and Agglomeration Forces
Antonioli, Davide; Borghesi, Simone; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2014
significantly inducing innovation within municipal boundaries. Regarding economic performances, firms' productivity is positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014145422
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Brown Sunsets and Green Dawns in the Industrial Sector : Environmental Innovations, Firm Behavior and the European Emission Trading
Borghesi, Simone; Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2014
-2008 through analyses of the new wave of Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data that covered for the first time environmental … innovation adoptions. We investigate whether the first phase of EU ETS has exerted some effects on environmental innovations by … instead to be weak: it drives innovation if we compare ETS and non ETS firms, but the stringency itself does not matter, due …
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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 …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069342
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Multinational Production and the Scope of Innovation
Bakhtiari, Sasan; Minniti, Antonio; Naghavi, Alireza - 2014
This research sheds light on the role of multinational production on the type of innovation performed by firms. We … construct matched firm-patent data to measure the scope of innovation, that is the extent to which the output of R&D can be … geographically separate production from innovation focus on more specialized types of R&D …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154177
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The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets
Hellmann, Thomas; Perotti, Enrico - 2011
Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195400
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Can R&D-Inducing Green Tariffs Replace International Environmental Regulations?
Naghavi, Alireza - 2014
location of firms, innovation and the environment. It shows that tariffs levied on polluting goods could result in less global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012709724
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Emission Taxes, Feed-in Subsidies and the Investment in a Clean Technology by a Polluting Monopoly
Rubio, Santiago - 2019
The paper studies the use of emission taxes and feed-in subsidies for the regulation of a monopoly that can produce the same good with a technology that employs a polluting input and a clean technology. The second-best tax and subsidy are calculated solving a two-stage policy game between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866610
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Adoption Gaps of Environmental Adaptation Technologies with Public Effects
Antoci, Angelo - 2019
The global nature of the climatic challenge requires a high level of cooperation among agents, especially since most of the related coping strategies produce some kind of externalities toward others. Whether they are positive or negative, the presence of externalities may lead the system towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866611
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Green Skills
Vona, Francesco - 2015
While policymakers talk of ‘green skills', there is little systematic empirical research on the demand for skills that will be needed to operate and develop green technology. We propose a data-driven methodology to identify green skills and to gauge the ways in which the demand for these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018275
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Advances and Slowdowns in Carbon Capture and Storage Technology Development
D'Aprile, Aurora - 2016
With the long term goal of holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C and "to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C", the Paris Agreement puts renewed attention on the portfolio of technologies needed to achieve consistent emission reductions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993573