innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …

. After linking these ideas to the induced innovation literature of the 1960s and the more recent directed technological …

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried … out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering … beneficial product and service innovations create jobs in contrast to process innovations. Employment changes occur in the wake …

(PPCC) as a radical innovation and supercritical coal-fired power plants as an incremental innovation are compared. An ex … sector of large-scale power plants is that an innovation is more likely to succeed the more it follows established …

Understanding factors affecting the direction of innovation is a central aim of research in the economics of innovation … several contexts for research in innovation. We benchmark and demonstrate the benefits of this approach in the context of 44 …

If further decarbonization of electricity systems is to continue, a next generation of innovation in transformative … determinants of innovation in this sector to glean insights on how government may support the development and deployment of these … technologies. We argue that policies that were successful at supporting the first wave of renewables innovation may not be …

, along with a more complex set of innovation incentives. This chapter presents background on medical device regulation … adverse events and recalls), and concludes with a discussion of the implications of regulation for innovation incentives in …