impacts of policy on the adoption of green energy technologies for distinct areas. In a second set of equations, we estimate … the perceived impacts of adoption on the firm's (i) energy efficiency, (ii) carbon emissions and (iii) competitiveness …

distinguish clearly between adoption and use of energy-related technologies (process innovation in the broad sense) and product … adoption or innovation by interacting adoption and innovation variables with policy instrument dummies. We test our hypotheses … innovation in energy-related fields. We take into consideration four energy-related policy instruments (and expected demand for …